6 things you should know about Gemini 3.6

1. Google launched Gemini 3.6 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber (), but the real headline is that it didn’t release Gemini 3.5 Pro. Last week, we learned that Google is months behind schedule on delivering Gemini 3.5 Pro as it tries to improve its capabilities, particularly in coding so Google teased a small update this week: “Gemini 3.5 Pro is currently testing with partners and we plan to make it broadly available as soon as it’s ready.”

2. Gemini 3.6 Flash supposedly brings improvements in coding, multimodal, and knowledge work performance. The latest Google model also uses up to 17% fewer tokens and costs less per token compared to Gemini 3.5 Flash.

3. Google priced Gemini 3.6 Flash at $1.50 per 1 million input tokens and $7.50 per 1 million output tokens, which is lower than Gemini 3.5 Flash, and also priced Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite at $0.30 per 1 million input tokens and $2.50 per 1 million output tokens. In short, Google is still trying to undercut the competition with its lower-tier models.

4. Gemini 3 is already old news. Google said that “we have started our most ambitious pre-training run yet, for Gemini 4, and are excited by the progress.”

5. Google said that Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber is a “cost-efficient and highly capable alternative” to larger, more expensive AI models like Anthropic’s Mythos. This new model, which as its name implies builds upon Gemini 3.5 Flash, is available first to governments and trusted partners via CodeMender, Google’s security-focused coding agent.

6. If this feels like a stopgap release, that’s because it is: Gemini 3.6 Flash is great, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is cheap, Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber is notable for anyone who cares about security, but everyone is still waiting for Gemini 3.5 Pro, or maybe Gemini 3.6 Pro, and now, apparently Gemini 4.

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