Google Ships New Gemini Flash Models, But Pro Is Still Missing
Google launched three new AI models today: Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber. That wasn't what most people expected. After unveiling Gemini 3.5 Flash at Google I/O 2026 in May and promising a Pro version within a month, Google quietly missed its own deadline. Gemini 3.5 Pro was held back because it fell short of internal targets, per Bloomberg, particularly on coding tasks. A late-June attempt to fix it by updating the training data—the massive datasets a model learns from—produced disappointing results. Alphabet stock fell roughly 4.4% on the report, erasing an estimated $200 billion in market cap in a single session.