Google launches Gemini 3 Flash, makes it the default model in the Gemini app
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Key Points:
- Google has launched the Gemini 3 Flash model, a fast and cost-effective AI model that outperforms its predecessor Gemini 2.5 Flash and competes closely with Gemini 3 Pro and OpenAI’s GPT-5.2 on various benchmarks, including a 33.7% score on Humanity’s Last Exam and 81.2% on the MMMU-Pro multimodality test.
- The Gemini 3 Flash is now the default model in the Gemini app globally, supporting multimodal inputs like video, sketches, and audio, and offers improved user intent understanding and richer visual responses, while Gemini 3 Pro remains available for specialized tasks like math and coding.
- Major companies such as JetBrains and Figma are already utilizing Gemini
