Gemini 3.6 Flash matches 3.5 Flash on the same intelligence score
Hesamation · x · 2026-07-21
- The post jokes that Gemini 3.6 Flash made “mind blowing progress” by matching the same intelligence score as 3.5 Flash, implying little to no net gain.
- The attached chart from Artificial Analysis shows multiple models side by side, with Gemini 3.6 Flash and Gemini 3.5 Flash both at 50 on the benchmark shown.
- The shared image frames this as a compute-intensive update with limited visible improvement, despite Google’s positioning that the model balances speed, intelligence, agentic tasks, and multimodal use.
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