Gemini 3.5 Pro GA Targeted for June 2026 — Expected to Challenge Claude Opus 4.8 at Half the Price

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Google confirmed at I/O 2026 that Gemini 3.5 Pro is already used internally and targets general availability in June 2026. With Flash already beating 3.1 Pro on coding (Terminal-Bench 76.2%) and agentic benchmarks (MCP Atlas 83.6%), Pro is expected to close gaps in long-context reasoning while potentially challenging Claude Opus 4.8 at roughly half the price. For builders choosing between model families, June could shift the cost-performance frontier significantly.