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.