First, the error…

plaintext Copy Edit ImportError: cannot import name 'genai' from 'google' (unknown location) …usually means that your Python “google” namespace is shadowed by the wrong package (or an old metapackage), so from google import genai can’t find the new Gen AI client.

1. Uninstall any conflicting “google” packages bash Copy Edit

Remove the deprecated top‑level google metapackage…

pip uninstall google

…and remove any old Generative AI SDK

pip uninstall google-generativeai Why?

The old google metapackage used to pull in a bunch of unrelated modules.

google-generativeai is the legacy SDK that uses a different import path.

2. Install the new Gen AI SDK bash Copy Edit pip install --upgrade google-genai This provides the new unified Gen AI client under the google.genai namespace.

3. Verify your import python Copy Edit from google import genai

client = genai.Client(api_key="YOUR_API_KEY") If that runs without error, you’re good to go!