Google I/O 2026: Gemini 3.5 Flash Is Generally Available

Launched May 19–20, Gemini 3.5 Flash is the headline model from Google I/O: frontier-class intelligence at Flash-tier speed (4x faster output tokens/sec than comparable models), outperforming Gemini 3.1 Pro on coding, agentic, and multimodal benchmarks. Available now via the Gemini API in Google AI Studio, Vertex AI, and Android Studio. Gemini 3.5 Pro is in testing and expected next month. Gemini Omni (video-to-anything multimodal generation) also previewed.

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Sources: Google Blog · 9to5Google · HotHardware