Google ships three new Gemini Flash models but its frontier 3.5 Pro remains lost in training

Google is shipping three new Flash models in the Gemini series, including the more efficient 3.6 Flash, which uses up to 65 percent fewer tokens, and a cybersecurity model available only to governments and select partners. But the anticipated flagship, Gemini 3.5 Pro, is still missing, while…

Google is shipping three new Flash models in the Gemini series, including the more efficient 3.6 Flash, which uses up to 65 percent fewer tokens, and a cybersecurity model available only to governments and select partners. But the anticipated flagship, Gemini 3.5 Pro, is still missing, while OpenAI, Anthropic, and Chinese labs are already competing at the frontier level. The article Google ships three new Gemini Flash models but its frontier 3.5 Pro remains lost in training appeared first on The Decoder.

Source: The Decoder — Published July 21, 2026 at 16:52 UTC — Category: Image AI