Gemini 3.5 Flash: more expensive, but Google plan to use it for everything

kept by eddie may 20

Google released Gemini 3.5 Flash at a 3x-6x price increase, yet deploys it across Search and Gemini app, testing price tolerance.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Looks Good For How Fast It Is
Gemini 3.5 Flash offers strong speed and agentic performance but suffers from higher cost, hallucination issues, and Google integration problems, making it niche rather than a top-tier contender.
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Google’s New Phone Comes With Plenty of A.I. Does Anyone Want That?
Google’s latest phone integrates AI for tasks like grocery ordering and photo taking, but users question whether they actually want these features.
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Gemini API File Search is now multimodal
The Gemini API File Search tool now supports multimodal data, custom metadata, and page citations for building RAG systems.
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Google Antigravity
Google released Antigravity, an agentic IDE and VS Code fork with three surfaces—agent dashboard, editor, and browser extension—for building apps with Gemini models.
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Just a moment...
Google Antigravity AI agents and a custom Skill Pack autonomously reverse-engineer legacy Express/Mongoose monoliths into modern Next.js architectures using TDD, verification, and agentic design patterns.
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