Gemini 3.6 Flash • Hacker News Board

guessmyname wrote: post #4

simonpure wrote: post #3

It's available in Antigravity as well - Gemini 3.6 Flash (High) Gemini 3.6 Flash (Medium) Gemini 3.6 Flash (Low) Gemini 3.5 Flash (Medium) Gemini 3.5 Flash (High) Gemini 3.5 Flash (Low) Gemini 3.1 Pro (Low) Gemini 3.1 Pro (High) Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Thinking) Claude Opus 4.6 (Thinking) GPT-OSS 120B (Medium)

Antigravity is such a dumb name. An-ti-gra-vi-ty (5) is long, Ge-mi-ni (3) was better. Aren’t Marketing/PR people at FAANG supposed to be among the best in the industry?

just call it google grav

Re: Gemini 3.6 Flash

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Post by verdverm » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 3:18 PM UTC

lousken wrote: post #12

manideep1428 wrote: post #2

where is gemini-3.5-pro ??

my question exactly - it was announced months ago on IO

yeah, I was surprised when Sundar said they will release it in a month, since training/evals is not so predictable

Re: Gemini 3.6 Flash

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Post by tjwebbnorfolk » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 3:18 PM UTC

guessmyname wrote: post #4

simonpure wrote: post #3

It's available in Antigravity as well - Gemini 3.6 Flash (High) Gemini 3.6 Flash (Medium) Gemini 3.6 Flash (Low) Gemini 3.5 Flash (Medium) Gemini 3.5 Flash (High) Gemini 3.5 Flash (Low) Gemini 3.1 Pro (Low) Gemini 3.1 Pro (High) Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Thinking) Claude Opus 4.6 (Thinking) GPT-OSS 120B (Medium)

Antigravity is such a dumb name. An-ti-gra-vi-ty (5) is long, Ge-mi-ni (3) was better. Aren’t Marketing/PR people at FAANG supposed to be among the best in the industry?

remember "kubernetes" ?

Re: Gemini 3.6 Flash

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Post by simonpure » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 3:19 PM UTC

Official announcement

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/ge...

Re: Gemini 3.6 Flash

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Post by staticman2 » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 3:20 PM UTC

spwa4 wrote: post #7

alunchbox wrote: post #5

I've heard almost nothing about Gemini in my circles, are they still in the race to build AGI?

Google has not had a single SOTA model since about a year now.

You are exaggerating. 3.1 Pro came out in February of this year.

Re: Gemini 3.6 Flash

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Post by wronglebowski » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 3:21 PM UTC

It’s frankly embarrassing at this point. I’ve got free access through buying a Pixel phone and it’s not even worth using as it’s a waste of my time. Here’s my experience so far using it for basic sysadmin Linux type stuff.

Gemini 3.1 Pro just feels a generation behind, from when models would miss easy things and make bad assumptions. Its not actively detrimental in bad way but the opportunity cost vs using something like Opus to be productive is large.

Gemini 3.5 Flash is the most annoying model I have ever used. It loves to respond in ALL CAPS like “LOOK AT THAT” for no apparent reason. I realize it’s a flash model but I will give it a basic list of tasks and the output will simply vomit “Now I will X” “Now I will Y” “Now I will Z” over and over again filling my screen with garbage. It’s also no smarter than 3.1 Pro and consumes just as many tokens as 3.1 Pro, it’s really pointless without a newer Pro model in place.

Re: Gemini 3.6 Flash

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Post by punkpeye » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 3:21 PM UTC

I just saw it in agy and started using it without asking any questions. I did not notice any major difference.