Segmind Release Notes (July 20–26, 2026)

1. Web Search Grounding for Gemini Models

What's new: Gemini text models and nano-banana-pro now accept an opt-in web_search: true parameter that grounds a generation in live Google Search results. It is off by default, so existing calls behave exactly as before.
Impact: Ground text and image generations in current information from the web by adding a single parameter to your request.
Released: July 24, 2026

What's new: Image models (nano-banana-2 and nano-banana-pro) now return the evidence behind a search-grounded result. The v2 response envelope includes a grounding object, synchronous requests also return an X-Web-Search-Queries header, and the same details are stored in the generation's metadata. Requests that don't use web_search are unchanged.
Impact: Inspect the exact search queries and sources that informed a grounded image, so you can verify and cite what the model used.
Released: July 25, 2026

What's new: Utility tools accept a new opt-in response_format: json parameter that returns every output from a job — the text response plus every generated clip and image — instead of only the first result. The default file response is untouched, and billing is unchanged either way.
Impact: Retrieve every clip or image from a multi-output job in a single structured response, which makes multi-clip video-editing runs much simpler to consume.
Released: July 25, 2026

What's new: Model pages at segmind.com/models/{slug} are getting a creator-first playground: a sticky compose panel that stays in view while you work, a running feed of your generations, and the model's documentation stacked below. The new design is rolling out gradually.
Impact: Compose, generate, and compare results on a model page without losing your place or scrolling back to the prompt box.
Released: July 25, 2026

What's new: A "Classic Interface" toggle lets you switch the playground back to the previous layout at any time. Your choice is remembered in your browser.
Impact: Keep working in whichever playground layout suits your workflow while the new design rolls out.
Released: July 26, 2026

What's new: Several improvements for prompt-heavy work: the compose dock now stays expanded, the prompt box grows taller before it starts scrolling, a fullscreen prompt editor handles scene-length scripts, and filled reference tiles now display the filename of the image you attached.
Impact: Write and edit long, detailed prompts comfortably, and tell your reference images apart at a glance.
Released: July 26, 2026

What's new: A strip of chips along the top of the canvas tracks the generations in your current session, showing which are in flight, completed, or failed. Click any completed chip to bring that result back on screen. The strip stays hidden until you start a generation.
Impact: Run several video generations in parallel, watch all of them at once, and jump back to any finished result without re-running it.
Released: July 26, 2026

What's new: Generations now stay attached to the page as you navigate, and refreshing a tab mid-generation reconnects to the running job and picks it back up. Saving a result to your machine now works consistently across browsers.
Impact: Move around the site or refresh the page during a long generation and still get your result.
Released: July 26, 2026

What's new: Video output in the playground now renders at the media's true aspect ratio.
Impact: Portrait (9:16) and other non-landscape videos fill the player at their true dimensions.
Released: July 22, 2026