- Sources: Google blog, HN discussion
- Summary: Google released Gemini 3.6 Flash on 2026-07-21, alongside Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite and a limited-access Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber. Google reports 3.6 Flash improves coding, knowledge work, and multimodal performance, uses 17 percent fewer output tokens than 3.5 Flash on the Artificial Analysis Index, and scores 83.0 percent on OSWorld-Verified versus 78.4 percent for 3.5 Flash, priced at 1.50 USD per 1M input and 7.50 USD per 1M output tokens. Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is reported at about 350 output tokens per second and 0.30 USD per 1M input and 2.50 USD per 1M output. Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber targets vulnerability finding and fixing and is limited to government and trusted partners through CodeMender.
- Why it matters: Cheaper, faster flash-tier models from a US lab land directly in the day's Chinese-open-weights cost-pressure narrative.
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