Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber(blog.google)
703 points by logickkk1 20 hours ago | 532 comments
tl;dr: Google released Gemini 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite, targeting agentic workloads with better token efficiency (17% fewer output tokens than 3.5 Flash) and lower pricing ($1.50/$7.50 per 1M in/out tokens for 3.6 Flash; $0.30/$2.50 for Flash-Lite at 350 tokens/sec). A specialized 3.5 Flash Cyber variant powers the CodeMender security agent for vulnerability detection and patching, available only to governments and trusted partners. Google also confirmed 3.5 Pro is in partner testing and pre-training has begun on Gemini 4.
HN Discussion:
  • Speculates on why Google isn't releasing a Pro model alongside these Flash variants
  • Google is prioritizing cheap, fast models for product integration over frontier models
  • The new models are worse and more expensive than competitors like GLM-5.2
  • Google's product execution and subscription management around AI tools is poor
  • Rapid deprecation cycles force users into ever-higher pricing tiers