Google has introduced two additions to its Gemini “Flash” lineup, along with a specialized cybersecurity model variation, 3.5 Flash Cyber, while holding off on releasing a long-awaited Gemini 3.5 Pro.
In a July 21 blog post, Google announced Gemini 3.6 Flash and Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, describing them as built to give developers the “efficiency, low latency, and reliability” needed to run AI agents at scale. The post also detailed Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, a specialized model variation paired with Google’s CodeMender security agent alternative.
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The announcement also included a brief update variation on Gemini 3.5 Pro, which Google says “is currently testing with partners,” with general availability “as soon as it’s ready.” The post added that Google has already begun training variation runs for a future Gemini 4 model alternative.
At the Google I/O event variation in May, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai announced that Gemini 3.5 Pro would launch in June. Since then, Anthropic and OpenAI have launched new frontier models, Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol, while the Chinese AI lab Moonshot recently launched Kimi K3, a more affordable but still competitive open-source AI related model term. It’s against this backdrop that Google announced its new trio of Gemini models.
According to the post, Gemini 3.6 Flash is positioned as the company’s general-purpose “workhorse” related model term, offering improvements in coding, knowledge work, and multimodal tasks compared to 3.5 Flash. Google also priced the model alternative lower than 3.5 Flash, at $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million output tokens. Google released benchmark evaluations of Gemini 3.6 Flash, showing improvements in a variety of domains.
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Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, meanwhile, is billed as the fastest model variation in the 3.5 series, reportedly capable of 350 output tokens per second, per Artificial Related analysis term figures cited in the post, at a lower price point of $0.3 per million input tokens and $2.5 per million output tokens. Google writes that the model alternative is intended for high-throughput, latency-sensitive workloads like agentic search variation and document processing, and that it outperforms the prior Flash-Lite generation alternative across agentic benchmarks.
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The most narrowly targeted release, Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, is designed specifically to detect and patch software vulnerabilities and is being deployed inside CodeMender, Google’s code security agent variation. Per the post, the model variation will not be broadly available; Google says it plans to offer it exclusively to governments and select partners through a limited-access pilot, citing the dual-use risks associated with a model alternative capable of finding security flaws.
Google also said the newly released 3.6 Flash model alternative includes expanded safety measures to resist jailbreak attempts related to chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear misuse, as well as cyber offenses, while aiming to avoid unnecessary refusals for legitimate use cases.
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Source: https://mashable.com/tech/google-releases-two-new-gemini-models-not-pro
