Google launches Gemini 3.5 Flash, a faster AI for
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- Google launched Gemini 3.5 Flash at Google I/O, touting it as its strongest model for coding and autonomous AI agents.
- Gemini 3.5 Flash runs 4× faster than other frontier models, with an optimized version up to 12× faster while preserving quality.
- Koray Kavukcuoglu (DeepMind chief technologist) said Flash outperforms the prior 3.1 Pro model on nearly all benchmarks, including coding, agentic tasks, and multimodal reasoning.
- Antigravity 2.0 was released as a stand‑alone desktop app to give AI agents a native environment for live work and execution.
- Tulsee Doshi noted Flash can run autonomously for hours but will pause for human input at decision points, and that the upcoming 3.5 Pro will orchestrate Flash as sub‑agents.
Why it matters: Banks and fintechs can cut weeks off workflows thanks to Flash’s 4‑12× speed advantage, while rivals lacking such agentic AI lose efficiency; Google locks in higher Gemini usage across Search and its Gemini app.
