Gemini 3.6 Flash will only matter if it is extremely efficient
Angaisb_ · x · 2026-07-21
The author says the key question for Gemini 3.6 Flash will be how efficient it is in practice.
If it is not extremely efficient, they argue that a lower reasoning-effort mode on GPT-5.6 Sol could still be the better choice.
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