Google launches Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite with stronger scores on coding, knowledge, and computer use
OfficialLoganK · x · 2026-07-21
Google says Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is its smallest and fastest Gemini model, and claims it is often smarter than Gemini 3 while costing the same as Gemini 2.5 Flash, which is nearing end of life.
In the accompanying benchmarks, Flash-Lite beats 3.1 Flash-Lite on agentic terminal coding (54.0% vs. 31.0%), knowledge work (1140 vs. 642), software engineering tasks (54.2% vs. 49.6%), and computer use (74.0% vs. 65.1%).
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