Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber
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Google releases Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber.
Google launched three new Gemini models. 3.6 Flash offers better coding and multimodal performance, with 17% fewer output tokens than 3.5 Flash. It is priced at $1.50/1M input tokens and $7.50/1M output tokens. 3.5 Flash-Lite is the fastest model in the 3.5 series, running at 350 output tokens/s. 3.5 Flash Cyber is a specialized model for cybersecurity, available only to governments and trusted partners via CodeMender. Gemini 3.5 Pro is testing with partners. The team has started pre-training for Gemini 4.
What commenters are saying
Commenters are skeptical of the benchmarks, noting Google only compared to previous versions. One user questions a discrepancy: the article claims a 65% improvement in token efficiency on DeepSWE, but later states 49% precision. Another commenter argues GLM-5.2 is both more intelligent and cheaper per task, though a reply notes Gemini 3.6 Flash costs slightly more per task but is 8x faster and multimodal. Several users find multimodal capabilities valuable for screenshots. A test reveals the model's knowledge of 2025 events is poor despite a March 2026 cutoff.