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Gemini 3.5 Flash might be fast enough for gen AI to make sense
Google says its more efficient Gemini 3.5 Flash is the key to your agentic AI future.
TL;DR
- Gemini 3.5 Flash is being rolled out across Google products, offering efficiency and intelligence for agentic tasks.
- The model can output nearly 300 tokens per second, with benchmark scores similar to larger frontier models.
- Google suggests companies using many AI tokens could save a billion dollars annually by switching to Gemini 3.5 Flash.
- Gemini 3.5 Flash shows substantial improvements in code generation and general task handling, performing comparably to OpenAI's GPT 5.5.
- Gemini Spark is introduced as Google's first dedicated AI agent, designed to run 24/7 and perform tasks across a user's Google footprint.
- Gemini Spark will initially be available to AI Ultra subscribers, with plans for broader rollout later.
- Google is also developing Gemini Omni, a future multimodal model intended to unify various input and output types like text, video, audio, and images.