Google launches Gemini 3.6 Flash with 17% fewer output tokens than 3.5 Flash

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Google has announced the launch of Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber in CodeMender.

3.6 Flash is said to reduce output token usage by 17% compared to 3.5 Flash.

Google says it plans to make Gemini 3.5 Pro available broadly soon, and the team has started pre-training Gemini 4.

Back in May, Google released Gemini 3.5 Flash , its smartest speed model at the time. It’s been only about two months since then, but a new shiny AI model is ready to take its place. Google has announced the launch of Gemini 3.6 Flash. Along with 3.6 Flash, the company is also launching 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.5 Flash Cyber in CodeMender.

Gemini 3.6 Flash: Features and highlights

Gemini 3.6 Flash is billed as Google’s workhorse Flash model, delivering better coding, knowledge work, and multimodal performance than before. However, the biggest highlight appears to be the model’s efficiency. Based on data from the Artificial Analysis Index, Google says 3.6 Flash consumes 17% fewer output tokens than 3.5 Flash. It is also said to take fewer reasoning steps and tool calls to make its way through multi-step workflows.