Say what Google's music, research and answering models are made for

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/// </summary>
VIDEO_GENERATION,
/// <summary>
/// The model composes music.
/// </summary>
/// <remarks>
/// Audio comes out of it, but not speech: instruments, arrangement, and in Lyria's case singing
/// with lyrics. Neither the speech synthesis list nor any other one fits, and a chat request to
/// such a model gets nothing back that reads like an answer.
/// </remarks>
MUSIC_GENERATION,
/// <summary>
/// The model transcribes audio into text.
/// </summary>
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/// </remarks>
COMPUTER_USE,
/// <summary>
/// The model runs an errand of its own instead of answering.
/// </summary>
/// <remarks>
/// One request starts a loop which plans, calls tools, runs code and reads the web, and it can
/// take minutes. Google serves its research and coding agents this way, through an API of their
/// own which a chat request never reaches. Note that the name alone decides nothing here: what
/// Perplexity calls deep research is an ordinary chat model with web search.
/// </remarks>
AGENT,
/// <summary>
/// The model answers a question out of sources handed to it, and says where the answer came from.
/// </summary>
/// <remarks>
/// Built for retrieval rather than for conversation: it is given passages along with the
/// question, and returns the answer, the citations, and an estimate of whether the question
/// could be answered from them at all. Reached through a route of its own.
/// </remarks>
GROUNDED_ANSWERING,
/// <summary>
/// The model extracts text from images or scanned documents.
/// </summary>