Gemini 3.6 Flash
Google DeepMind · July 2026
● activeClosedmixture of expertsmultimodal
VariantsFlash, Flash-Lite, Flash Cyber
Description
A fast, cost-efficient model providing incremental improvements over Gemini 3.5 Flash for high-volume multimodal tasks and low-latency applications.
Key Innovations
Distillation
DistillationTraining a smaller 'student' model to mimic a larger 'teacher' model, preserving capability at lower cost.
Family Tree
Built On
Lineage
PaLM→PaLM 2→Gemini 1.0→Gemini 1.5 Pro→Gemini 2.0→Gemini 2.5 Pro→Gemini 3.1 Pro→Gemini 3.5 Flash→Gemini 3.6 Flash