Google released three new Gemini models focused on cost efficiency. The expected Gemini 3.5 Pro flagship remains delayed. The company is targeting enterprise token budgets.
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Google released three new Gemini models Tuesday, leaning into cost efficiency. The company's next big frontier model, Gemini 3.5 Pro, remains in testing with partners.
The new models include Gemini 3.6 Flash, which Google calls a "workhorse" for tasks like coding. According to the company, 3.6 Flash reduces token usage – the units of text processed by AI – by up to 17% compared with its predecessor, based on analysis from the Artificial Analysis Index benchmark. Google also released 3.5 Flash-Lite, described as its fastest and "most cost-effective" version of the 3.5 series. The third model is 3.5 Flash Cyber, designed to find and fix cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Tulsee Doshi, senior director of product management in Google's Gemini group, said in a blog post that the cyber model offers performance similar to rivals at a "lower price per token than larger models."
Anthropic and OpenAI have both launched cybersecurity models in recent months. Google is aiming to undercut them on price, the company wrote in its post.
CEO Sundar Pichai said earlier this year that companies are "blowing through their annual token budgets" and could save money by using a mix of Flash and other models. That message is central to Google's current pitch. The company said its new models hit a "sweet spot" of efficiency and power for running AI agents.
Gemini 3.5 Pro, the frontier model many expected in June, is still not ready. Google said it is testing the model with partners and will ship it "as soon as it's ready." Business Insider reported in June that Google had pushed the targeted release date to July. Bloomberg later reported the model may have been delayed further. As of Tuesday, Google did not have a single model among the top 10 of the Artificial Analysis leaderboard, which scores models across math and reasoning.
Google also said Tuesday that it has begun "the most ambitious pre-training run yet" for Gemini 4, its next major flagship. The company typically launches these flagship models late in the year. No date has been announced for Gemini 3.5 Pro's release.
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