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Google shipped it August 13: FrontierCode 1.1 at 43.6% (from 34.4%), DeepSWE v1.1 at 65.3% (from 49.0%), WebDev Arena Elo 1588 (from 1538), AutomationBench enterprise workflow completion at 30.4% (from 17.0%). Introductory pricing is $0.75/M input and $3.75/M output through December 31, then doubles. The three-week cadence on a low-cost tier is the number to budget around, not the benchmarks.
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The changelog offers Z.ai's open-weights coding model with a 1M-token context free via Blackbox AI on AI Gateway, default for new eve agents, switchable for existing ones with eve set --model zai/glm-5.2. Excludes Fast mode and the glm-5.2-fast variant. Separately, Gemini 3.7...
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...
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....
Google DeepMind shipped computer use as a built-in tool inside Gemini 3.5 Flash on June 24, collapsing the standalone Oct-2025 computer-use model into the same model you already use for function calling, Search grounding, and Maps. One agent sees a screen, clicks, types, and l...
Microsoft unveiled MAI-Code-1-Flash at Build, its first model that turns written descriptions into source code for apps and websites, explicitly aimed at lowering developer costs and cutting its dependence on OpenAI (CNBC). Same week, Google pushed Gemini 3.5 Flash to general...
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