{"id":66148,"date":"2026-10-05T09:34:53","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T05:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=66148"},"modified":"2026-10-05T09:34:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T05:34:53","slug":"google-to-restrict-free-access-to-gemini-ai-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2026\/10\/05\/google-to-restrict-free-access-to-gemini-ai-models\/","title":{"rendered":"Google to restrict free access to Gemini AI models"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Google will restrict free access to some of its Gemini artificial intelligence models under changes to model availability taking effect this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Starting on 9th October, users without a Google AI subscription will have access to Flash-Lite only, instead of the three models previously available, according to Google.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the changes, Google AI Plus subscribers will have access to Flash-Lite and Flash, but not Pro. Google said AI Plus subscribers will receive an email informing them when the changes will take effect for their accounts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Subscribers to Google AI Pro and Google AI Ultra will continue to have access to all three models \u2014 Flash-Lite, Flash and Pro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Google said AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers will also have access to Deep Think, an option designed to provide maximum parallel reasoning for complex tasks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google will restrict free access to some of its Gemini artificial intelligence models under changes to model availability taking effect this month. Starting on 9th October, users without a Google AI subscription will have access to Flash-Lite only, instead of the three models previously available, according to Google. Under the changes, Google AI Plus subscribers &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":66149,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66150,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66148\/revisions\/66150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}