The Google campus in Mountain View, Calif., on July 22, 2025. Google on Tuesday released three new artificial intelligence models, including Gemini 3.6 Flash, its most powerful, and Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, which is fine-tuned for cybersecurity. [Kelsey McClellan/The New York Times]
SAN FRANCISCO – Google on Tuesday released three new artificial intelligence models, including Gemini 3.6 Flash, its most powerful, and Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, which is fine-tuned for cybersecurity.
Google is aiming to compete with rivals such as Anthropic and OpenAI on cutting-edge models and on cybersecurity, an area in which the two startups have forged ahead this year with powerful systems that can identify security vulnerabilities in software.
Gemini Flash 3.6 improves on the capabilities of Google’s previous version of Flash, which performed strongly on benchmarks like coding and finance tasks, according to AI leaderboards. The new model is also cheaper for users.
Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber can find and patch security vulnerabilities at a lower cost than other larger models, the company said. The third model, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, is designed for tasks like managing AI “agents,” which are bots that can act autonomously to function like digital personal assistants.
