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Details
- Google DeepMind introduced Gemini 3.5, a new model family focused on frontier intelligence and real-world action.
- The first release is Gemini 3.5 Flash, described as its strongest model yet for agents and coding.
- Google says 3.5 Flash is faster and more cost-efficient, while still rivaling other leading models on performance.
- The model can reason across large codebases and coordinate subagents in parallel over long tasks.
- Google says 3.5 Flash outperforms Gemini 3.1 Pro on coding and agentic workloads.
- The rollout is live in the Gemini app and AI Mode in Google Search, and available to developers through Antigravity and the Gemini API in Google AI Studio.
- Google says Gemini 3.5 Pro will follow next month, signaling a staged release rather than a single model drop.
Impact
The launch strengthens Google’s push to make Gemini a default choice for both consumer and developer workflows, especially where coding, search, and multi-step agent tasks overlap. By pairing a lower-cost Flash model with broad distribution across Search, the Gemini app, and developer tools, Google is pressing on both access and price at a time when OpenAI, Anthropic, and others are competing heavily on agentic coding. The promised Pro follow-up suggests Google is using a fast cadence to keep momentum into the next product cycle.
