Google has launched Gemini 3 Flash, a new AI model built to deliver high-level intelligence at much faster speeds and lower cost. It is the latest addition to the Gemini 3 family, following the recent release of Gemini 3 Pro and Gemini 3 Deep Think. The tech giant claims that the Gemini 3 Flash is “our most impressive model for agentic workflows.” Google is making this model accessible to everyone across the company’s products. Keep reading for all the details.
Gemini 3 Flash focuses on speed without giving up intelligence. It combines the strong reasoning abilities of Gemini 3 Pro with low-latency. This allows it to answer questions quickly while still handling complex tasks such as advanced reasoning, coding, and understanding images and videos.
The model performs at a high level on difficult academic and knowledge benchmarks, showing results similar to much larger AI systems. Google claims Gemini 3 Flash can adjust how much it “thinks,” spending more time on difficult problems and responding faster to simple ones.
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Gemini 3 Flash is rolling out globally. For regular users, Gemini 3 Flash is becoming the default model in the Gemini app, replacing Gemini 2.5 Flash at no cost. It is also rolling out as the default model for AI Mode in Google Search.
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Developers can access the Gemini 3 Flash model through the Gemini API in Google AI Studio, Gemini CLI, Vertex AI, Gemini Enterprise, and Google’s new agentic platform, Google Antigravity.
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