BREAKING
Google Ships Gemini 3.6 & 3.5 Flash Lite
0$
3.6 Flash output /M
0$
Flash Lite output /M
0$
Flash Lite input /M
3.6 Flash Benchmark Gains
DeepSWE old37
DeepSWE new49
MLE old49.7
MLE new63.9
Developer Reception Split
Supporters
Lower prices
Better token efficiency
Good for agentic tasks
Critics
Trails Grok 4.5, Claude Sonnet 5
Weaker on SWE-Bench Pro
Instruction-following gaps
Wide Rollout, One Restriction
1Gemini API & apps
2Antigravity & Enterprise
3Android Studio
4Cyber: gov only
Efficiency Play Amid Rivals
AI NEWS BLITZ
Google quietly rolled out two new lightweight Gemini models with no big announcement.