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Gemini 3 Flash: frontier intelligence built for speed

Dec 17, 2025Tulsee Doshi
Gemini 3 Flash: frontier intelligence built for speed
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This post announces the release of Gemini 3 Flash, a new model in the Gemini 3 family. It highlights its speed, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness compared to previous models (Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 3 Pro). Key technical details include its performance on reasoning benchmarks (GPQA Diamond, Humanity's Last Exam, MMMU Pro), its ability to modulate thinking for efficiency (30% fewer tokens on average than 2.5 Pro), and its speed advantage (3x faster than 2.5 Pro). For developers, it emphasizes its Pro-grade coding performance with low latency, achieving a score of 78% on SWE-bench Verified. It is positioned as ideal for agentic coding, production-ready systems, and responsive interactive applications, enabling complex video analysis, data extraction, and visual Q&A. The post also details its rollout to consumers via the Gemini app and AI Mode in Search, and to enterprises via Vertex AI and Gemini Enterprise.

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