Video is the most expensive thing you can feed an LLM. A single query over a long video used to eat 300–400K tokens because models brute-forced every frame at a fixed 1 FPS. Google’s answer, launched September 1: stop telling the model how to watch. Gemini Agentic Video hands that decision to the model itself — skim or go frame-by-frame, watch the pixels or listen to the audio track, zoom into a suspicious window and resample it at higher frame rate.
What it actually does
It’s an API capability, not a new model. On long-video benchmarks like 1H-VideoQA and LVBench, per-query tokens drop from ~350K to under 50K — 88% fewer tokens, 66% lower cost — and accuracy goes up 7%. Cheaper and smarter at once is rare. It handles sub-second moment retrieval across multi-hour footage, anomaly detection, and counting repeated movements.
How to use the API
Available now in the Gemini API on 3.7 Flash, 3.6 Flash, and 3.5 Flash-Lite: set processing to agentic in your config. Standard token pricing, no feature fee. Typical use cases: security-footage review agents, sports analysis, searching hours of screen recordings.
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