Gemini 3.6 Flash matches 3.5 Flash on Artificial Analysis and trails newer rivals
Rare_Bunch4348 · reddit · 2026-07-21
A benchmark image for Gemini 3.6 Flash suggests it landed at the same Artificial Analysis score as Gemini 3.5 Flash.
- The chart also places it below several rivals, including Meta Spark 1.1, GLM-5.2, Sonnet 5, Grok 4.5, and Terra variants.
- The post's takeaway is that Google seems to have hit a ceiling, at least on this benchmark snapshot.
- Because the image contains the actual score chart, this is more than a vague hot take.
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