Google launched on Tuesday Gemini 3.5 Flash, a new AI model that the company says is its strongest yet for coding and autonomous AI agents. The model, which was introduced at the company's annual Google I/O developer conference, can independently execute coding pipelines, manage research projects, and, in internal tests, build an operating system entirely from scratch. The release signals Google's shift from pitching AI as a conversational tool to AI as an agentic tool. It's not just answering questions, but planning, building, and iterating on real work with minimal human input. Koray Kavukcuoglu, DeepMind's chief technologist, told reporters on Monday ahead of the public launch: '3.5 Flash offers an incredible combination of quality and low latency. It outperforms our latest frontier model, 3.1 Pro, on nearly all the benchmarks,' including coding, agentic tasks, and multimodal reasoning. He added that it is 4x faster than other frontier models, a speed that's ideal for coding and...
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