Bump google-genai from 2.17.0 to 2.18.1

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Bumps google-genai from 2.17.0 to 2.18.1.

Release notes

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v2.18.1

2.18.1 (2026-08-13)

Bug Fixes

• Add gemini-3.7-flash (f898b61)

v2.18.0

2.18.0 (2026-08-12)

Features

• Add interaction_status to LiveServerContent (66e224c)
• api: Make the deferred service tier publicly available on Vertex (e1f7c40)
• Enable json schema in FunctionDeclaration parser (62d50d6)
• Make speech_config a structured object. (cc0d42e)
• Support injecting httpx2 client. (012804d), refs #2680

Bug Fixes

• Improve AFC(automatic function calling) in chat including fixing bugs in AFC for generate_content_stream. also log warnings in generate_content, generate_content_stream and their async variants that AFC is meant to be used in chat experience, not directly in models module. (fe6118e)

Performance Improvements

• Build model validators on first use instead of at import (66bfe95), refs #2784
• Lazily import the interactions API to speed up import google.genai (89dcfe5)
• Stop importing the requests HTTP stack at module scope (3a44936)

Changelog

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2.18.1 (2026-08-13)

Bug Fixes

• Add gemini-3.7-flash (f898b61)

2.18.0 (2026-08-12)

Features

• Add interaction_status to LiveServerContent (66e224c)
• api: Make the deferred service tier publicly available on Vertex (e1f7c40)
• Enable json schema in FunctionDeclaration parser (62d50d6)
• Make speech_config a structured object. (cc0d42e)
• Support injecting httpx2 client. (012804d), refs #2680

Bug Fixes

• Improve AFC(automatic function calling) in chat including fixing bugs in AFC for generate_content_stream. also log warnings in generate_content, generate_content_stream and their async variants that AFC is meant to be used in chat experience, not directly in models module. (fe6118e)

Performance Improvements

• Build model validators on first use instead of at import (66bfe95), refs #2784
• Lazily import the interactions API to speed up import google.genai (89dcfe5)
• Stop importing the requests HTTP stack at module scope (3a44936)

Commits

• 2dd9537 chore(main): release 2.18.1 (#2866)
• f898b61 fix: Add gemini 3.7
• 65b1890 chore: refresh docs
• 3d6b89b chore: Update GCS references to Cloud Storage in descriptions
• 0a870c5 Copybara import of the project:
• 23e3b7f chore: remove deprecated Turn types
• 661ddeb chore: log warning when user uses automatic function calling directly in Mode...
• 3299af6 chore(main): release 2.18.0 (#2830)
• cc0d42e feat: Make speech_config a structured object.
• fe6118e fix: improve AFC(automatic function calling) in chat including fixing bugs in...
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