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title: Google AI (Gemini)
slug: guides/server/providers/google
---


<Tip>To enable Google AI models with Letta, set `GEMINI_API_KEY` in your environment variables. </Tip>

You can use Letta with Google AI if you have a Google API account and API key. Once you have set your `GEMINI_API_KEY` in your environment variables, you can select what model and configure the context window size.

## Enabling Google AI as a provider
To enable the Google AI provider, you must set the `GEMINI_API_KEY` environment variable. When this is set, Letta will use available LLM models running on Google AI.

### Using the `docker run` server with Google AI
To enable Google Gemini models, simply set your `GEMINI_API_KEY` as an environment variable:
```bash
# replace `~/.letta/.persist/pgdata` with wherever you want to store your agent data
docker run \
  -v ~/.letta/.persist/pgdata:/var/lib/postgresql/data \
  -p 8283:8283 \
  -e GEMINI_API_KEY="your_gemini_api_key" \
  letta/letta:latest
```

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### Using `letta run` and `letta server` with Google AI
To chat with an agent, run:
```bash
export GEMINI_API_KEY="..."
letta run
```
This will prompt you to select a model:
```bash
? Select LLM model: (Use arrow keys)
 » letta-free [type=openai] [ip=https://inference.letta.com]
   gemini-1.0-pro-latest [type=google_ai] [ip=https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com]
   gemini-1.0-pro [type=google_ai] [ip=https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com]
   gemini-pro [type=google_ai] [ip=https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com]
   gemini-1.0-pro-001 [type=google_ai] [ip=https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com]
   gemini-1.0-pro-vision-latest [type=google_ai] [ip=https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com]
   gemini-pro-vision [type=google_ai] [ip=https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com]
   gemini-1.5-pro-latest [type=google_ai] [ip=https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com]
   gemini-1.5-pro-001 [type=google_ai] [ip=https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com]
   gemini-1.5-pro-002 [type=google_ai] [ip=https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com]
   gemini-1.5-pro [type=google_ai] [ip=https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com]
   gemini-1.5-pro-exp-0801 [type=google_ai] [ip=https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com]
   gemini-1.5-pro-exp-0827 [type=google_ai] [ip=https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com]
```
as we as an embedding model:
```
? Select embedding model: (Use arrow keys)
 » letta-free [type=hugging-face] [ip=https://embeddings.letta.com]
   embedding-001 [type=google_ai] [ip=https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com]
   text-embedding-004 [type=google_ai] [ip=https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com]
```
To run the Letta server, run:
```bash
export GEMINI_API_KEY="..."
letta server
```
To select the model used by the server, use the dropdown in the ADE or specify a `LLMConfig` object in the Python SDK.
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