Type: AI model
Gemini 3.5 Flash is Google DeepMind’s fast model released at I/O 2026, the first of the Gemini 3.5 family and described as its strongest model for agents and coding, outperforming Gemini 3.1 Pro on coding benchmarks at roughly 4x the speed. It is available across the Gemini app, Search AI Mode, and the API. GROUNDING tracks Gemini 3.5 Flash’s benchmarks, speed, and availability.
Recent Updates
- 2026-07-02: Senior SWE-Bench introduces a benchmark for evaluating agents like senior engineers (Hacker News) · senior-swe-bench.snorkel.ai — LLM Evals Code Agents mini-swe-agent Claude Opus 4.8 · Claude Sonnet 5 · GPT 5.5 · Claude Opus 4.7 · GPT-5.4 · GLM-5.2 · kimi-k2.6 · Claude Sonnet 4.6 · Gemini 3.1 Pro
- 2026-07-03: LLMs as grading assistants for mathematics exams: error, correlation, and rubric prompting (cs.AI updates on arXiv.org) · arxiv.org — LLM Evals Google · OpenAI · Anthropic M. G. Sarwar Murshed Gemini 3.1 Pro Extended ChatGPT 5.5 Pro Extended ChatGPT 5.5 Thinking Claude Pro Opus 4.7 · Claude Sonnet 4.6
- 2026-07-07: Benchmarking rule adherence in semi-open textual sandboxes (cs.CL updates on arXiv.org) · arxiv.org — LLM Evals GPT-5.4 · Claude Sonnet 4.6
- 2026-07-09: Spec-grounded test generation improves LLM code repair (cs.AI updates on arXiv.org) · arxiv.org — LLM Evals Haiku 4.5 · Sonnet 4.6 · Opus 4.8 GPT-5.3-CodeX
- 2026-07-10: Gemini audio judges for full-duplex voice-agent evaluation (cs.CL updates on arXiv.org) · arxiv.org — LLM Evals Agents Gemini 2.5 Flash · Gemini-3.1-Pro
- 2026-07-11: Reliability of Gemini audio judges for full-duplex voice agents (cs.AI updates on arXiv.org) · arxiv.org — LLM Evals Gemini 2.5 Flash · Gemini-3.1-Pro
- 2026-07-15: Anthropic Research: Four New Agentic Misalignment Failure Modes in Frontier Models (Anthropic) · alignment.anthropic.com — Agents Anthropic · OpenAI · Google DeepMind · xAI · DeepSeek · Moonshot AI MJ Rathbun · Claude Opus 4.8 · Claude Opus 4.7 · Claude Opus 4.6 · Claude Opus 4.5 · Claude Sonnet 4.6 · Claude Mythos Preview · GPT 5.5 · GPT-5.4 · Gemini-3.1-Pro · Gemini 3 Flash · Grok 4.3 · DeepSeek V4 · kimi-k2.6
- 2026-07-15: Thinking Machines Lab Releases Inkling, Competitive Open-Source Multimodal Model (Все статьи подряд / Искусственный интеллект / Хабр) · habr.com — Open Source LLMs Thinking Machines Lab · OpenAI · Anthropic · Google · Moonshot AI · Hugging Face · NVIDIA · Cognition Mira Murati · Inkling · kimi-k2.5 · kimi-k2.6 · GLM-5.2 · Nemotron 3 Ultra · DeepSeek-V3 · Claude Opus 4.6 · Gemini-3.1-Pro · Grok 4.3
- 2026-07-16: Safeguard-conditioned evaluation for dual-use biology assistants (cs.AI updates on arXiv.org) · arxiv.org — LLM Evals Anthropic · Google · arXiv Dipesh Tharu Mahato · Claude Sonnet 4.6
- 2026-07-21: Google announces Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber (Hacker News) · blog.google — Agents Code Agents Tool Use LLM Evals Google · Artificial Analysis · Datacurve · Hebbia · Harvey · Gemini 3.6 Flash · Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite · Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber · Gemini 3.5 Pro
- 2026-07-21: Gemini 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite are GA, with API changes and model migration guidance (Hacker News) · ai.google.dev — Agents Tool Use Context Engineering LLM Evals Google · Gemini 3.6 Flash · Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite · Gemini 2.5 Flash
- 2026-07-22: Google releases Gemini 3.6 Flash, a faster Flash model with no overall intelligence gain (Все статьи подряд / Искусственный интеллект / Хабр) · habr.com — Tool Use Agents Google · Artificial Analysis · Gemini 3.6 Flash · Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite · Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber
- 2026-07-22: Testing Whether AI Labs Are Optimizing for the Pelican Benchmark (Hacker News) · dylancastillo.co — LLM Evals OpenRouter · GitHub · Hacker News Simon Willison · GPT-5.6 Terra · Claude Sonnet 5 · Grok 4.5 · Qwen3.7-Max · GLM-5.2 · DeepSeek V4 Pro · GPT-5.6 Luna Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite · Claude Fable 5
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What is Gemini 3.5 Flash?
Gemini 3.5 Flash is Google DeepMind’s fast model released at I/O 2026, the first of the Gemini 3.5 family and described as its strongest model for agents and coding, outperforming Gemini 3.1 Pro on coding benchmarks at roughly 4x the speed. It is available across the Gemini app, Search AI Mode, and the API. GROUNDING tracks Gemini 3.5 Flash’s benchmarks, speed, and availability.
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When was Gemini 3.5 Flash last mentioned?
Gemini 3.5 Flash was most recently mentioned in a radar update dated 2026-07-22.
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