# Gemini 3.5 Flash is designed for long-horizon agentic tasks.

*genai · news · 2026-05-19 · Digital Trends*

## Key points

- Gemini 3.5 Flash outperforms Gemini 3.1 Pro on coding and agentic benchmarks.
- Google claims Gemini 3.5 Flash is four times faster than comparable frontier models at half the cost.
- The model natively supports multi-step agentic tasks and can deploy subagents in parallel via Antigravity.
- Gemini 3.5 Flash is now the default in the Gemini app and Google Search's AI Mode.
- Gemini Spark, a new personal AI agent, is launching first to trusted testers and soon to U.S. beta users.

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

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