Google Releases Gemini 3.5 Flash as GA — Benchmarks Beat Gemini 3.1 Pro on Coding

Gemini 3.5 Flash is now generally available at $1.50/$9 per 1M tokens (input/output), 1M token context, and 76.2% on Terminal-Bench 2.1 — outperforming Gemini 3.1 Pro on both coding and agentic benchmarks at 4x the speed. Google also launched WebMCP, a proposed open standard allowing developers to expose structured tools for browser-based AI agents, with a Chrome 149 origin trial starting now.

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Sources: Google I/O 2026 Developer Keynote · 9to5Google I/O 2026 Recap