AI Release Timeline

Gemini 3.6 Flash launched by Google. Google's speed-optimized Gemini 3.6 Flash with frontier-level intelligence at lower cost than prior Flash tiers.

API endpoint `gemini-3.6-flash` available for Gemini 3.6 Flash.

Initial pricing set at $1.50/M input and $7.50/M output tokens.

Gemini 3.6 Flash ships with 1M token context window.

Gemini 3.6 Flash adds native vision and image understanding capabilities.

Gemini 3.6 Flash supports audio input and multimodal voice workflows.

Gemini 3.6 Flash supports function calling and structured tool use.

Gemini 3.6 Flash introduces extended reasoning and chain-of-thought capabilities.

Gemini 3.6 Flash achieves 94/100 multimodal benchmark score — top-tier performance.

Gemini 3 Pro launched by Google. Google Gemini 3 Pro frontier tier for complex multimodal reasoning and long-context workloads.

API endpoint `gemini-3-pro` available for Gemini 3 Pro.

Initial pricing set at $3.60/M input and $14.00/M output tokens.

Gemini 3 Pro ships with 1M token context window.

Gemini 3 Pro adds native vision and image understanding capabilities.

Gemini 3 Pro supports audio input and multimodal voice workflows.

Gemini 3 Pro supports function calling and structured tool use.

Gemini 3 Pro introduces extended reasoning and chain-of-thought capabilities.

Gemini 3 Pro achieves 96/100 multimodal benchmark score — top-tier performance.