With Gemini 3.5 Flash, Google bets its next AI wave on agents, not chatbots
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Gemini 3.5 Flash for agents, core interest.
Summary
Google launched Gemini 3.5 Flash at I/O, prioritizing autonomous agent capabilities over chatbot interactions. The model is 4–12x faster than competitors, co-developed with the Antigravity agentic IDE, and can independently run coding pipelines, manage research, and even build an OS from scratch. Internal benchmarks show it outperforms Google's previous frontier model, 3.1 Pro, on coding and agentic tasks, with enterprises already using it to automate multi-week workflows in banking and data science.