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Gemini 3.6 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, the last purpose-built to find and patch vulnerabilities and pitched as a cheap alternative to large security-specialized models like Mythos (DeepMind). Splitting a cheap tier into a security SKU is new packaging. Vulnerability discovery is becoming a model category, not a prompt. If you run SAST or dependency-audit pipelines, benchmark against Flash Cyber before renewing whatever you pay for now.
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A major regulated bank releasing offensive-style security tooling into the open is genuinely unusual, and it gives builders a production-hardened reference rather than a research prototype (Finextra). It landed the same week Google shipped Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, a purpose-bui...
Gemini 3.6 Flash launched July 21 at $1.50/1M in, $7.50/1M out, claiming 17% fewer output tokens than 3.5 Flash, DeepSWE code precision up from 37% to 49%, OSWorld-Verified computer use at 83% (from 78.4%), and a knowledge cutoff finally moved from January 2025 to March 2026....
Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Image) generates images in as little as four seconds and is live in AI Studio, the Gemini API, AI Mode, and the Gemini app. Gemini Omni Flash entered public preview for video generation and conversational editing at $0.10 per second, m...
Willison's August 13 release adds Gemini 3.7 Flash, 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite plus gemini-embedding-2 and -001, rebuilding on LLM 0.32's structured message and streaming APIs so reasoning, tool calls and results emit as typed stream events while preserving Gemini thought si...
Announced July 30, Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite and 3.5 Flash join Cohere and Meta options, with Oracle explicitly framing model selection as per-scenario price-performance. The incumbent ERP vendor is conceding the model layer entirely and defending the data and workflow layer. That...
"Gemini is Cooked but GCP is Cooking" argues Google quietly shelved 3.5 Pro, which industry chatter placed at roughly Opus 4.5 level, shipping Gemini 3.6 Flash as a bridge the authors call worse than Muse Spark 1.2, Grok 4.5, and tier-1 Chinese open-source models. The hard num...
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