Gemini 3.5 Flash Launches with 4× Speed, Beats Gemini 3.1 Pro in Coding Benchmarks
Google unveiled Gemini 3.5 Flash at I/O 2026, claiming roughly four times faster token output than comparable frontier models, half the price, and benchmark results that surpass its own Gemini 3.1 Pro in coding, agent, and multimodal tasks, while noting trade‑offs in deep reasoning and long‑context performance.
