# Google unveils Gemini 3.5 Flash, a faster and lower-cost version of its flagship AI model family.

*genai · news · 2026-05-20 · TechStartups.com*

## Key points

- Google introduced Gemini 3.5 Flash, a frontier-grade AI model offering industry-leading speed and significantly lower costs.
- Gemini 3.5 Flash includes enhanced cybersecurity measures to reduce harmful outputs and erroneous refusals of safe prompts.
- Google unveiled Omni, a multimodal AI world model that simulates physical environments and edits real-world-knowledge-grounded video.
- Gemini Spark, a new AI agent capable of reasoning and executing actions across Google apps, enters beta next week.
- Omni leverages DeepMind's world model research to produce physically accurate video edits based on user actions.

**Companies:** Google
**Countries:** United States

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