#google-deepmind

What OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind and Meta each publish on whether an agent's reasoning trace can be read and trusted: every measured figure, every blank.

Google shipped Gemini 3.8 Flash three weeks after 3.7 at the same $0.75/$3.75 intro price and printed the January 1 rise to $1.50/$7.50. What changes.

Google's Omni 1.1 Flash chains 10-second extensions up to 40 seconds and documents 1080p and 4K as upscales. What the reported $0.03/s draft tier buys.

Gemini 3.7 Flash ships at $0.75/$3.75 per M through Dec 31, 2026 — but Google cut 3.6 Flash to that same intro rate, so half-price needs an asterisk.

Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber finds and patches vulnerabilities but stays gated. Why restricted access is becoming the default for dual-use AI models.

Google shipped Nano Banana 2 Lite and Gemini Omni Flash on June 30, 2026. Fast image generation at $0.034 and conversational video at $0.10 a second.

Google baked computer use natively into Gemini 3.5 Flash on June 24, 2026. It scores 78.4 on OSWorld-Verified at roughly one-third of GPT-5.5's cost.

DiffusionGemma is Google's first open-weight text diffusion LLM: a 26B MoE under Apache 2.0 hitting 1,100+ tokens/sec on one H100. Where it wins and loses.

Gemini 3.5 Flash launched today: 83.6% MCP Atlas, 1M context, new thinking_level API. Full benchmarks vs Opus 4.7 and GPT-5.5 with migration notes.

Gemini 3 Deep Think scores 84.6% on ARC-AGI-2 and 3455 Elo on Codeforces. Full benchmark analysis vs Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.2 with access details.

Gemini 2.5 Flash, Pro, and Deep Think guide refreshed with 2026 caveats for Gemini 3.1, pricing, benchmarks, and model selection.