diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 16be36b7155..6e299f5f8e6 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -45,3 +45,6 @@ target/
 
 # Rapid test data
 testdata
+
+# Examples test data
+examples/gemini*/chroma_storage/
diff --git a/examples/gemini/load_data.py b/examples/gemini/load_data.py
index bac0b19e324..ef0f40899ce 100644
--- a/examples/gemini/load_data.py
+++ b/examples/gemini/load_data.py
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ def main(
     persist_directory: str = ".",
 ) -> None:
     # Read all files in the data directory
+    ids = []
     documents = []
     metadatas = []
     files = os.listdir(documents_directory)
@@ -27,6 +28,7 @@ def main(
                 # Skip empty lines
                 if len(line) == 0:
                     continue
+                ids.append(str(len(ids))) # unique ID for the document
                 documents.append(line)
                 metadatas.append({"filename": filename, "line_number": line_number})
 
@@ -43,8 +45,9 @@ def main(
         google_api_key = os.environ["GOOGLE_API_KEY"]
 
     # create embedding function
-    embedding_function = embedding_functions.GoogleGenerativeAIEmbeddingFunction(
-        api_key=google_api_key
+    embedding_function = embedding_functions.GoogleGenerativeAiEmbeddingFunction(
+        api_key=google_api_key,
+        model_name='gemini-embedding-001',
     )
 
     # If the collection already exists, we just return it. This allows us to add more
@@ -56,16 +59,16 @@ def main(
     # Create ids from the current count
     count = collection.count()
     print(f"Collection already contains {count} documents")
-    ids = [str(i) for i in range(count, count + len(documents))]
 
-    # Load the documents in batches of 100
+    # Load the documents in batches
+    batch_size = 5  # Using small batch size to work better with Free Tier
     for i in tqdm(
-        range(0, len(documents), 100), desc="Adding documents", unit_scale=100
+        range(count, len(documents), batch_size), desc="Adding documents", unit_scale=batch_size
     ):
         collection.add(
-            ids=ids[i : i + 100],
-            documents=documents[i : i + 100],
-            metadatas=metadatas[i : i + 100],  # type: ignore
+            ids=ids[i : i + batch_size],
+            documents=documents[i : i + batch_size],
+            metadatas=metadatas[i : i + batch_size],  # type: ignore
         )
 
     new_count = collection.count()
diff --git a/examples/gemini/main.py b/examples/gemini/main.py
index c2d44bbad9b..4396ba65cb8 100644
--- a/examples/gemini/main.py
+++ b/examples/gemini/main.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 import chromadb
 from chromadb.utils import embedding_functions
 
-model = genai.GenerativeModel("gemini-pro")
+model = genai.GenerativeModel('gemini-2.5-flash')
 
 
 def build_prompt(query: str, context: List[str]) -> str:
@@ -78,8 +78,9 @@ def main(
     client = chromadb.PersistentClient(path=persist_directory)
 
     # create embedding function
-    embedding_function = embedding_functions.GoogleGenerativeAIEmbeddingFunction(
-        api_key=google_api_key, task_type="RETRIEVAL_QUERY"
+    embedding_function = embedding_functions.GoogleGenerativeAiEmbeddingFunction(
+        api_key=google_api_key, 
+        model_name='gemini-embedding-001',
     )
 
     # Get the collection.