# Building AI-powered apps with Firebase AI Logic

DevFeed: [Building AI-powered apps with Firebase AI Logic](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/building-ai-powered-apps-with-firebase-ai-logic-16599.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://firebase.blog/posts/2025/05/building-ai-apps>)

Author: Thevi Sundaralingam; Dmitry Lyalin; Miguel Ramos

Published: 2025-05-20T10:49:00Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [Firebase Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/firebase-blog.md>)

Topics: [Firebase](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/firebase.md>), [Generative AI](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/generative-ai.md>), [SDKs](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sdks.md>), [Genkit](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/genkit.md>), [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-logic](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-logic.md>), [dashboards](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dashboards.md>), [firebase](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/firebase.md>), [firebase-ai-logic](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/firebase-ai-logic.md>), [gemini](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gemini.md>), [genkit](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/genkit.md>), [google-i-o](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/google-i-o.md>), [hybrid-inference](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hybrid-inference.md>), [inference](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/inference.md>), [launch](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/launch.md>), [node-js](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/node-js.md>), [on-device](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/on-device.md>), [on-device-ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/on-device-ai.md>), [sdks](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sdks.md>), [vertex-ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vertex-ai.md>)

## AI overview

Firebase announces Firebase AI Logic, the evolution of Vertex AI in Firebase, with client-side and Genkit-based server-side integrations for generative AI. New capabilities include Gemini Developer API access, hybrid and on-device inference, Unity support, image generation and editing, enhanced observability, and dynamic model lookup in Genkit for Node.js.

## Source excerpt

News, tutorials, and updates from the Firebase team.