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Google’s Gemini 3.5 Flash beats the frontier models

At Google I/O, Google unveiled Gemini 3.5 Flash, a new AI model that outperforms its predecessor and competes with frontier models like GPT-5.5 and Opus 4.7 at a fraction of the cost. It excels in tool usage and agentic tasks. Also introduced: Gemini Omni, a multimodal video generation model with responsible AI safeguards.

SourceThe New Stack AIAuthor: Frederic Lardinois
Google’s Gemini 3.5 Flash beats the frontier models
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  • Gemini 3.5 Flash outperforms previous Pro model in benchmarks and rivals top models from OpenAI and Anthropic.
  • It is significantly faster (280 tokens/sec) and cheaper (less than half the price) than comparable frontier models.
  • The new model powers Gemini Spark personal AI agent and is available via multiple platforms.
  • Gemini Omni allows video generation and editing with realistic physics, but initially limited to video with avatar feature for safety.

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