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Models2026-08-08 · source-backed
"Gemini is Cooked but GCP is Cooking" argues Google quietly shelved 3.5 Pro, which industry chatter placed at roughly Opus 4.5 level, shipping Gemini 3.6 Flash as a bridge the authors call worse than Muse Spark 1.2, Grok 4.5, and tier-1 Chinese open-source models. The hard number: Gemini API token growth decelerated from 60% in Q1 2026 to 38% in Q2. They place Gemini 8th or 9th overall and don't see Gemini 4 reversing it, while arguing GCP and TPU are winning. Read alongside the leadership shake-up in Policy below.
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Gemini 3.6 Flash launched July 21 at $1.50/1M in, $7.50/1M out, claiming 17% fewer output tokens than 3.5 Flash, DeepSWE code precision up from 37% to 49%, OSWorld-Verified computer use at 83% (from 78.4%), and a knowledge cutoff finally moved from January 2025 to March 2026....
Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Image) generates images in as little as four seconds and is live in AI Studio, the Gemini API, AI Mode, and the Gemini app. Gemini Omni Flash entered public preview for video generation and conversational editing at $0.10 per second, m...
Google made Gemini 3.6 Flash the default for the antigravity-preview managed agent with no code changes, and added environment hooks that run custom scripts around tool calls: pre_tool_execution can block with a denial reason, post_tool_execution can enforce validation like li...
GA and stable for production across the Gemini API, Enterprise, and Antigravity, and now the default in the Gemini app and AI Mode in Search globally. Google pitches frontier-level intelligence at ~4x the speed of comparable models, priced at $1.50/$9 per 1M tokens, 1M-token c...
Today's big security find from Willison: Truffle Security discovered 2,863 exposed Google API keys that silently gained Gemini access when Google enabled the Gemini API. Keys intentionally made public for Maps became secret credentials with no notification. Google classified i...
Willison's August 13 release adds Gemini 3.7 Flash, 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite plus gemini-embedding-2 and -001, rebuilding on LLM 0.32's structured message and streaming APIs so reasoning, tool calls and results emit as typed stream events while preserving Gemini thought si...
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