Google Search now powered by Gemini 3.5 Flash

Google introduced its newest and biggest AI mannequin, Gemini 3.5 Flash immediately at Google I/O. Google’s head of Search, Liz Reid, said Gemini 3.5 Flash is Google’s “latest Flash mannequin delivering sustained frontier efficiency for brokers and coding.” She added that’s now getting used to energy AI Mode globally.

Gemini 3.5 Flash. Not solely is Gemini 3.5 Flash powering AI Mode in Google Search, however it’s also powering the Gemini app, for all customers, not simply paid customers.

For builders, 3.5 Flash is now reside in Google Antigravity, Gemini API for Google AI Studio and Android Studio and for enterprise customers for Enterprise Agent Platform and Gemini Enterprise.

Koray Kavukcuoglu, CTO of Google DeepMind and Chief AI Architect, stated:

• “Gemini 3.5 Flash delivers intelligence that rivals massive flagship fashions on a number of dimensions, on the speeds you could have come to anticipate from the Flash collection.”
• “It’s our strongest agentic and coding mannequin but, outperforming Gemini 3.1 Professional on difficult coding and agentic benchmarks like Terminal-Bench 2.1 (76.2%), GDPval-AA (1656 Elo) and MCP Atlas (83.6%), and main in multimodal understanding (84.2% on CharXiv Reasoning).”
• “When output tokens per second, it’s 4 occasions sooner than different frontier fashions. Touchdown within the top-right quadrant of the Synthetic Evaluation index, 3.5 Flash delivers frontier-level intelligence at distinctive velocity — proving you not need to commerce high quality for latency.”

Why we care. Gemini 3.5 is already powering Google Search’s AI Mode and is probably going quickly to energy AI Overviews. It’s a step up from the earlier AI mannequin and can proceed to get smarter and extra helpful.

It is crucial so that you can see how the AI Mode responses differ from the earlier mannequin for the queries and prompts that matter to your website.

Search is altering quickly and you have to keep on prime of those adjustments.