BREAKING
Google Ships Gemini 3.6 & 3.5 Flash Lite
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3.6 Flash output /M
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Flash Lite output /M
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Flash Lite input /M
3.6 Flash Benchmark Gains
DeepSWE old
37
DeepSWE new
49
MLE old
49.7
MLE new
63.9
Developer Reception Split
Supporters
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Lower prices
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Better token efficiency
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Good for agentic tasks
Critics
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Trails Grok 4.5, Claude Sonnet 5
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Weaker on SWE-Bench Pro
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Instruction-following gaps
Wide Rollout, One Restriction
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Gemini API & apps
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Antigravity & Enterprise
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3
Android Studio
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4
Cyber: gov only
Efficiency Play Amid Rivals
AI NEWS BLITZ
Google quietly rolled out two new lightweight Gemini models with no big announcement.