Google launched three lower-cost GEMINI "Flash" models focused on Tuesday efficiency as usage of lower-cost open-source models surges. GEMINI 3.6 Flash is a faster, cheaper upgrade to 3.5 Flash; Google says it cuts output tokens by up to 17% while im

2026-07-22

Google launched three lower-cost GEMINI "Flash" models focused on Tuesday efficiency as usage of lower-cost open-source models surges. GEMINI 3.6 Flash is a faster, cheaper upgrade to 3.5 Flash; Google says it cuts output tokens by up to 17% while improving coding, reasoning and multimodal performance. GEMINI 3.5 Flash-Lite is a lower-cost model aimed at high-frequency AI agents and document-processing workloads. GEMINI 3.5 Flash Cyber targets cybersecurity use cases to identify and remediate software vulnerabilities and is currently available only to government agencies and select partners via Google’s CodeMender platform.