Google Launches Three Gemini Flash Models, Flagship 3.5 Pro Still Missing

Google announced three new Gemini Flash models: Gemini 3.6 Flash focuses on efficiency, saving up to 65% output tokens vs 3.5 Flash on DeepSWE, priced at $1.5 per million input tokens and $7.5 per million output tokens. Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite targets high-throughput low-latency tasks, outputting 350 tokens per second at $0.30/$2.50 per million tokens. Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber is for cybersecurity, scoring 83.2% on CyberGym (only 2.4% lower than GPT-5.5-Cyber), but limited to government and trusted partners via CodeMender. Computer Use is now built-in as a client tool for Gemini API and Gemini Enterprise. Flagship Gemini 3.5 Pro remains unreleased, limited to partner testing. Bloomberg reports delays due to coding improvement work. Developers and enterprises using Google AI models cannot compete with OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol, Anthropic's Fable/Mythos, or Meta's latest models on high-end tasks. Gemini 4 has started pretraining, but release date is unknown.