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May 20, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Really That Powerful? Google Turns Its Search Box into an AI Agent

Google’s I/O revealed a shift to 24‑hour AI agents, token usage soaring to over 3.2 quadrillion per month, and introduced Gemini 3.5 Flash—a lightweight model that outperforms its predecessor on multiple programming and multimodal benchmarks, powers a new Search‑box agent, and underpins the Spark workspace assistant and Gemini Omni video generation.