Google Unveils Gemini 3.5 Flash at I/O

According to TechCrunch, Google launched Gemini 3.5 Flash at its annual I/O developer conference on Tuesday, calling it the company's strongest model yet for coding and autonomous AI agents. DeepMind Chief Technologist Koray Kavukcuoglu said the model outperforms Gemini 3.1 Pro on nearly all benchmarks and runs four times faster than other frontier models, with an optimized version reaching twelve times the speed at the same quality. Google demonstrated agents spawning to build a full operating system inside Antigravity, its agentic development platform. The launch signals Google's shift from conversational AI to agentic AI capable of planning and executing work with minimal human input.