Google just released three new Gemini models built for speed, agents, and one built specifically to hunt security bugs

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Google introduced three new additions to its Gemini Flash lineup this week, Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and a specialized cybersecurity model called 3.5 Flash Cyber, all aimed at the specific combination of efficiency, low latency and reliability needed to run AI agents at real production scale rather than just chat conversations

Gemini 3.6 Flash is positioned as the workhorse upgrade, delivering better coding and knowledge work performance than 3.5 Flash while actually using 17 percent fewer output tokens according to the Artificial Analysis Index, with some benchmarks showing efficiency gains as high as 65 percent. It takes fewer reasoning steps and tool calls to complete multi-step workflows, shows meaningfully better precision on coding tasks like DeepSWE, and improves at computer use tasks, now available as a built-in client side tool through the Gemini API. All of that comes at a lower price than its predecessor, $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million output tokens, and ships with enhanced Frontier Safety protections specifically covering chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear misuse alongside cyber offense risks, designed to resist jailbreak attempts while still minimizing refusals for legitimate uses

Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is the speed specialist, running at 350 output tokens per second, the fastest in the entire 3.5 series, priced at just $0.30 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens. Despite being the budget option, it actually outperforms the larger 3 Flash model on several agentic and coding benchmarks, including SWE-Bench Pro and OSWorld-Verified, making it a genuinely capable choice for high volume production traffic rather than just a stripped down bargain model

The most unusual release is Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, a version fine-tuned specifically for finding and fixing security vulnerabilities, built to work inside Google's CodeMender code security agent where multiple Flash Cyber instances collaborate to produce a single combined vulnerability report. Given how directly this technology could be misused if it fell into the wrong hands, Google is deliberately limiting its availability, making it exclusively accessible to governments and trusted partners through a limited access pilot program rather than releasing it broadly, aiming to give legitimate defenders a head start on patching vulnerabilities before attackers can exploit them. Google also confirmed Gemini 3.5 Pro remains in partner testing with wide availability coming as soon as it's ready, while the team has already begun its most ambitious pretraining run yet for Gemini 4

Introducing Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyberblog.google