Overview

Story hub for Google’s July 21, 2026 Flash lineup: gemini-36-flash, gemini-35-flash-lite, and restricted gemini-35-flash-cyber paired with codemender.

Recent Developments

  • 3.6 Flash: ~17% fewer output tokens vs 3.5 Flash; API 7.50 per 1M tokens; coding + computer-use gains
  • Flash-Lite: ~350 tok/s; 2.50; high-throughput agentic workloads / Search AI Overviews
  • Flash Cyber: dual-use restricted to governments/trusted partners via CodeMender
  • Gemini 3.5 Pro still in partner testing; Gemini 4 pre-training started

Warning

Gemini 4 is pre-training only. Flash Cyber is not a public cyber-offense API.

Sources