Gemini 3.5 Flash might be fast enough for gen AI to make sense

Key points

• At last year’s I/O event, Google was still talking about the 2.5 branch of Gemini, and what a difference a year makes.
• We’ve gone through the 3.0 and 3.1 families since then, and now it’s on to version 3.5. Gemini 3.5 Flash is rolling out across a wide range of Google products starting today, and Google again claims this model is even better than its last-gen Pro model.
• That has been a trend with Google’s tick-tock model updates over the past year, but the team says this release is special.
• Gemini 3.5 Flash supposedly offers frontier-level intelligence while also being efficient enough that it may finally make complex agentic tasks worth doing at scale.
• Tulsee Doshi, senior director of product management for Gemini, explains that the innovations of Gemini 3.5 Flash are woven through multiple Google products, and this is just the start.