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Google Launches Gemini 3.6 Flash, Cuts Token Cost 17%

7/22/2026

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Summary

Story summary

Google launched Gemini 3.6 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite and Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber on July 21, 2026 in the United States.
Gemini 3.6 Flash cuts token usage by 17 % and costs $1.50 input and $7.50 output per million tokens.
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite runs 350 tokens per second.
Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber is limited to governments and trusted partners.
Gemini 3.5 Pro stays in testing while DeepMind pre-trains Gemini 4 and builds a chip for ten-fold efficiency.

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Historical Context

In May 2020 OpenAI launched GPT-3, a 175-billion-parameter model that built on the scaling trend begun with GPT-1 in June 2018 and GPT-2’s staged release in February 2019. Its API sparked a commercial AI-service market, prompting Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service pricing and Google’s Gemini competition, while developers surpassed 100 000 API users by year-end.

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Story summary

Google launched Gemini 3.6 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite and Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber on July 21, 2026 in the United States.
Gemini 3.6 Flash cuts token usage by 17 % and costs $1.50 input and $7.50 output per million tokens.
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite runs 350 tokens per second.
Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber is limited to governments and trusted partners.
Gemini 3.5 Pro stays in testing while DeepMind pre-trains Gemini 4 and builds a chip for ten-fold efficiency.

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