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Google launched the Gemini 3 Flash AI mode which has been made the default model on the Gemini app. The new model is said to even outrival the Gemini 2.5 Pro model which was the top of the line model from Google for a few months.
Soon after the Gemini 3 Pro launch, Google has launched the Gemini 3 Flash AI model, which has also become the default AI model on the Gemini app. The tech giant allows free users to ask limited queries to its Thinking model while the rest of the queries are directed to the non-reasoning model which is denoted as ‘Fast’ in the Gemini app.
“Gemini 3 Flash demonstrates that speed and scale don’t have to come at the cost of intelligence. It delivers frontier performance on PhD-level reasoning and knowledge benchmarks like GPQA Diamond (90.4%) and Humanity’s Last Exam (33.7% without tools), rivaling larger frontier models, and significantly outperforming even the best 2.5 model, Gemini 2.5 Pro, across a number of benchmarks.” Google said in a blogpost
Gemini 3: What's new?
Google says Gemini 3 Flash is 3 times faster than the Gemini 2.5 Pro model on the Artificial Analysis benchmark while running at a fraction of the cost. For context, Gemini 2.5 Pro had remained among the top ranking models across benchmarks for months until Google released its Gemini 3 Pro models last month.
In the coveted, Humanity's Last Exam benchmark Gemini 3 Flash gets a score of 33%, which is higher than the scores of Grok 4.1 Fast (17.6%) and Claude Sonnet 4.5(13.7%) while being just below GPT-5.2 (34.5%).
In the SWE-bench Verified, a benchmark for coding related tasks, the Gemini 3 Flash gets a score of 78% which puts it ahead of Claude 4.5 Sonnet (77.2%) and close to the heels of GPT-5.2 (80.0%).
Meanwhile, in the ARC-AGI-2 benchmark for visual reasoning related tasks, the Gemini 3 Flash outperformed not just Claude and Gemini 2.5 Pro but even the latest Gemini 3 Pro model.
Where can use Gemini 3 Flash?
Gemini 3 Flash is now already the default model in Gemini and users don't need to pay any extra cost for leveraging its capabilities. Meanwhile, the model now also powers the AI Mode in Search which allows users to ask questions in conversational style, much like Perplexity.
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