if only DeepSeeek supported vision, would never use Gemini.

The silence is deafening.

Google watches over the last few months a flat out assault on the Pareto curve from American and Chinese companies. Release after release pushing the boundaries of frontier intelligence and price/performance.

And the response from arguably the biggest AI research labs in the world by headcount is Flash 3.6.

What do you do when you are given essentially unlimited resources and still find yourself falling behind?

Gemini 3.5 flash is already a pretty good model. But, unfortunately, the primary way you can interact with it for coding is through Antigravity - which is actively developer hostile.

It doesn't matter how good the model is if you're (mostly) forced to use it in Antigravity - which turns any model into crap.

Wake me up when Antigravity doesn't suck.

Plugged 3.5 Flash Lite into an existing agent harness that was previously using 3.1 Flash Lite and this shit just does not work. It's not following instructions and is not producing the correct tool calls.

Why exactly are they announcing these completely milquetoast models ?

I'd be low-keying the release if anything, given how lame they are compared to their competition.

What am I missing?

I use 3.5 flash 10x more than any other model, despite have access to all of them. If I'm going to play a slot machine, I'd rather get the pain over with quickly.

We're almost five years into the whole GenAI thing and we're still relying on these guys to spoonfeed us incremental updates.

It's time for them to start focusing on open-weight models and efficiency. Otherwise there's just a layer of marketing hype and "will it do this?" that has to be cut through for evaluation of each and every release cycle.

Models are getting easier and easier to create. The money, if there's any here, is in the harness the user interfaces with, and the data centers running them.

Google seems to be falling way behind the pack. antigravity cli is pure trash. gpt 3.5 pro is now behind and isn't released yet. GPT 6 and Fable 6 releasing next month. What the hell is going on over there ?

Just switched to AI Plus from Pro, seems like I won't be missing much.

> we have taken an intentional approach to deploying 3.5 Flash Cyber. The model will be exclusively available to governments and trusted partners

Screw your government! US and Israeli governments should get the least access, but of course we all know they'll be the (only) ones to get full unfiltered access.