Google’s New Gemini CLI Brings AI Directly to the Terminal

04/07/2025

Google just dropped Gemini CLI, an agentic AI tool that runs locally in your terminal, putting its Gemini 2.5 Pro models right where devs work. Unlike cloud-based assistants, this open-source (Apache 2.0) tool hooks into local codebases, letting developers:

🔍 Debug, explain, or generate code via natural language
🎥 Create videos (Veo 3) & research reports (Deep Research agent)
⚡ Run 1,000 free daily requests (2x avg. usage)

If adoption takes off, Gemini CLI could become a gateway for Google’s broader AI ecosystem. But in a market where speed, accuracy, and workflow fit decide winners, Google still has to prove its models can out-code the competition.

At GlenFlow, we see this as another sign of the AI arms race shifting to dev tools. Google’s betting that open-sourcing + high free limits will lure users away from paid alternatives like Cursor or Copilot. But will devs trust it? Stack Overflow’s 2024 survey found only 43% fully trust AI-generated code, and security risks remain.

Read more: https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/25/google-unveils-gemini-cli-an-open-source-ai-tool-for-terminals/

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