Google Launches Gemini 3.6 Flash With 17% Lower Token Use, Teases Gemini 4

3 articles · Updated · Droid Life · Jul 21

Google released Gemini 3.6 Flash alongside 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.5 Flash Cyber, while saying it has begun its “most ambitious” pre-training run yet for Gemini 4.
Gemini 3.6 Flash is positioned as Google’s workhorse model for coding, knowledge work and multimodal tasks, with 17% lower token consumption than 3.5 Flash and fewer unwanted code edits.
The rollout starts immediately across the Gemini API in Google AI Studio and Android Studio, enterprise agent platforms and apps, with 3.5 Flash-Lite also coming to Google Search.
The launch extends Google’s push for cheaper, faster AI agents, while Gemini 4 remains without a launch date and Gemini 3.5 Pro is still in testing.

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