Overview
- Google announced the new Gemini 3.6 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Flash‑Lite, and a cybersecurity‑tuned Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber on Tuesday as updates focused on efficiency for production agent workloads.
- Gemini 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash‑Lite are available now to developers and customers through Google AI Studio, the Gemini API, Antigravity, the Gemini app, Android Studio, and Gemini Enterprise, with Flash‑Lite also rolling out in Google Search.
- Google published benchmark and pricing details showing 3.6 Flash uses about 17% fewer output tokens than 3.5 Flash and is priced at $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million output tokens while 3.5 Flash‑Lite targets high throughput at roughly 350 output tokens per second and costs $0.30 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens.
- Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber is being offered only in a limited CodeMender pilot for governments and trusted partners because its ability to find and craft fixes for vulnerabilities carries dual‑use risks, and Google says internal tests found it detected more unique issues on complex targets than earlier Flash models and some competitor models.
- Google confirmed its flagship Gemini 3.5 Pro remains in partner testing and that pretraining for next‑generation Gemini 4 has begun, a development that keeps pressure on Google to balance short‑term cost‑focused releases with longer‑term frontier capability while offering tangible near‑term savings for enterprises that pay by token.