Running Gemini 2.5 Pro with grounded search sometimes returns empty response.text with finish_reason of STOP and no other reason. When I inspect the response dict it shows evidence of the search with some web meta information, but nothing else. Any ideas on what is going on? Here is my code: def …

Hopefully this helps. Now I am getting this pretty regularly - 7 times in the last 11 requests (which are running in sequence): Caught exception: 500 INTERNAL. {'error': {'code': 500, 'message': 'An internal error has occurred. Please retry or report in https://developers.generativeai.google/guide/…

I’m seeing the exact same issues here. Once it returns None as input, it will consistently return that every time I call it via the Python packages. Oddly enough, if i do the exact same prompt via the AIStudio UI it will still work fine. My specific prompts are <1k text and ~4k in document tokens if…

Hopefully this is fixed soon. I really need to be using 2.5. While incredibly SLOOOOOOW, it does produce much better results.

More observations. The bug seems to be in the python SDK. When I run the same system prompt and user prompt with the same python code (literally copy and paste) in colab, it works 100% of the time. After making some adjustments to my system prompt in colab (again running it back to back with no issu…

Bro it’s because the ai hit a page with a AI attack that generates random text slowly eventually linking back to a other loop then it just wastes resources or training time until it times out. They have a name one min I’ll look it up eh idk but it’s a response to ignoring robots.txt

same issue but i am using simple java request [image] "finishReason" : "MAX_TOKENS" - But Text is Empty Gemini API Here text is empty but giving finish reason as MAX_TOKEN { "candidates" : [ { "content" : { "parts" : [ { "text" : "" } ], "…

Hi, the issue has been escalated to the engineering team. Thanks.

I am having the same issue. What was the engineering team feedback?

I’m using the LiteLLM Latest, and I also have the same issue. Has it been solved yet? [image]

I am facing the same issue. Any progress on getting this fixed?

Gemini 2.5 Pro with empty response.text

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Yasar_Arafath May 3, 2025, 7:54pm 22

same issue but i am using simple java request

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Gemini 2.5 Pro with empty response.text

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