Gemini 3.5: frontier intelligence with action
May 19, 2026Koray Kavukcuoglu, Jeff Dean, Oriol Vinyals, Noam Shazeer

Summary
This post introduces Gemini 3.5 Flash, a new model in the Gemini Flash series. It highlights its performance on agentic and coding benchmarks (Terminal-Bench 2.1, GDPval-AA, MCP Atlas), multimodal understanding (CharXiv Reasoning), and output tokens per second (4x faster than other frontier models). It emphasizes its ability to handle long-horizon agentic tasks at scale, reducing development time and cost. The post also mentions its integration with the Antigravity harness for deploying collaborative subagents and its ability to generate richer web UIs and graphics. It also touches on the development of Gemini 3.5 Pro and the safety frameworks used.