Google releases Gemini 3.6 Flash workhorse model, teases Gemini 4

Google DeepMind released Gemini 3.6 Flash on July 21, its new default workhorse model and successor to 3.5 Flash, alongside a Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite tier and a Flash Cyber variant. The model keeps a 1-million-token context window, advances its knowledge cutoff to March 2026, and uses roughly 17% fewer output tokens while scoring higher on coding, long-context and computer-use benchmarks, priced at $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million output tokens. Google said Gemini 3.5 Pro remains in partner testing and that DeepMind has begun its most ambitious pre-training run yet for the next-generation Gemini 4.