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Firebase Genkit Genkit

Open-source framework for building AI-powered applications and agents across TypeScript, Go, Python, and Dart.

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  1. Firebase Genkit

    · Google I/O 2024

    Launched in beta as an open-source AI integration framework under the Firebase brand.

  2. GenkitCurrent name

    · Standalone Brand & genkit.dev Launch

    Rebranded from Firebase Genkit to Genkit and moved canonical documentation to genkit.dev ahead of Genkit 1.0.

What is Firebase Genkit called now?

Firebase Genkit is now called Genkit, with the latest change in December 2024 (Standalone Brand & genkit.dev Launch). Open-source framework for building AI-powered applications and agents across TypeScript, Go, Python, and Dart. Only the customer-facing name changed; the underlying technical identifiers remain backward compatible.

Also known as

  • Google Genkit

Technical identifiers

Technical identifiers unchanged. Only the customer-facing product name changed; the APIs, CLI commands, IAM roles and Terraform resources below keep their legacy identifiers for backward compatibility.

REST / gRPC APIsaiplatform.googleapis.com generativelanguage.googleapis.com
gcloud / CLI Commandsgenkit firebase init genkit

Uses the genkit CLI and @genkit-ai/* packages; firebase.google.com/docs/genkit redirects to https://genkit.dev/.

Notes & disambiguation

  • Originally introduced at Google I/O 2024 as 'Firebase Genkit' under firebase.google.com/docs/genkit.
  • Dropped the 'Firebase' prefix to become simply 'Genkit' (with documentation redirected from firebase.google.com/docs/genkit to genkit.dev) to reflect its scope as Google's cross-language, model-agnostic AI application and agent framework.

Sources & official documentation

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