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Gemini 3.5: frontier intelligence with action

Google DeepMind 15 May 2026, 22:50 ● Covered by 2 sources

Google released Gemini 3.5 Flash, a model designed to execute complex agentic workflows and coding tasks. The model achieves 76.2% on Terminal-Bench 2.1 coding benchmarks and processes output 4 times faster than other frontier models while costing less than half as much. The model is now available globally via the Gemini app, Google Search, and developer platforms, with Gemini 3.5 Pro launching next month.

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Gemini 3.5 is built to help you execute complex, agentic workflows.

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The open-weight AI model market hit an inflection point today as Alibaba and Kimi released trillion-parameter competitors that challenge the closed-model orthodoxy—just as Washington moved to restrict them. Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 Max (2.4 trillion parameters) and Kimi K3 (2.8T) are going open-weight, with K3 ranking first on Frontend Web App Arena and fourth on agentic benchmarks, signaling that scale and transparency can coexist. The timing matters: while U.S. policymakers weigh layered restrictions on Chinese open models, technical experts are pushing back hard, arguing that closed gardens actually hurt security and competition more than they help. The real fragmentation risk isn't technical—it's regulatory.

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