Gemini 3.7 Flash

Post by wraptile » Fri, Aug 14, 2026, 5:00 AM UTC

WarmWash wrote: post #263

anthonypasq wrote: post #97

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flash-lite is more of their luna tier competitor but even still not quite there yet, but gemini's dominance on multimodal and image understanding i think really gets downplayed on this site when most people think the only think you can do with LLMs is write code

Ultimately it would track that in the real world, people will want to point cameras at things and get answers. I pay for ChatGPT and Gemini, and while Sol is a total beast with anything text, it still poisoned my cucumber bed. Which I will be bitter about for at least a few years while the bed recovers. Gemini (even flash) is exceptionally talented at viewing photos and telling you what to do/what it is (and telling…

Post by rw2 » Fri, Aug 14, 2026, 5:09 AM UTC

Post by Barbing » Fri, Aug 14, 2026, 5:22 AM UTC

a2ff6eeb0 wrote: post #366

jjcm wrote: post #106

Here's a image->html test. Gemini has always swung above its weight class for vision work, so I'm always eager to try it with this. Original images: https://image.non.io/neonRamenDesigns.webp Gemini 3.7 build: https://html.non.io/neonRamenGemini3.7 Opus 5 build for comparison: https://html.non.io/neonRamen Opus is still best in class for this, but it's worth noting how well Gemini 3.7 does vs a more comparable LLM pr…

These look exactly like all of the low budget bodega signs near me. They also look like a bunch of cheap ads for parties that I keep seeing. The sameness of style is uncanny. (I don't have the Bodega signs, but I'm thinking of shit like this, from a quick google: https://linkstub.com/en/wet-wild-foam-party )

  “Let me explain: on average, illustrators don't make any money. They are already one of the most immiserated, precarized groups of workers out there. They suffer from a pathology called "vocational awe." That's a term coined by the librarian Fobazi Ettarh, and it refers to workers who are vulnerable to workplace exploitation because they actually care about their jobs – nurses, librarians, teachers, and artists.

  If AI image generators put every illustrator working today out of a job, the resulting wage-bill savings would be undetectable as a proportion of all the costs associated with training and operating image-generators. The total wage bill for commercial illustrators is less than the kombucha bill for the company cafeteria at just one of Open AI's campuses.

  The purpose of AI art – and the story of AI art as a death-knell for artists – is to convince the broad public that AI is amazing and will do amazing things. It's to create buzz. Which is not to say that it's not disgusting that former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati told a conference audience that "some creative jobs shouldn't have been there in the first place," and that it's not especially disgusting that she and her colleagues boast about using the work of artists to ruin those artists' livelihoods.”

Post by MgB2 » Fri, Aug 14, 2026, 5:33 AM UTC

dannyw wrote: post #399

UncleOxidant wrote: post #102

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Yes, 3.6 Flash is very fast. I used to get a fair amount of usage of the Gemini Flash models on the free tier. I signed up for their $4.99/month tier (includes 400GB of Google space which was also enticing) and it turns out I only get about 15 to 20 minutes of usage before I get a come-back-in-7-days message. Comically low usage limits on that plan.

For comparison tho, 400GB of cloud storage for $5/mo is actually quite amazing even if it didn’t include anything else. I know, it’s cloud storage, a NAS lets you own your data, but for non techies who have a bunch of photos and videos; it seems like an easy recommendation.

Post by ghoshbishakh » Fri, Aug 14, 2026, 5:44 AM UTC

thereitgoes456 wrote: post #338

ghoshbishakh wrote: post #125

Has anyone noticed that antigravity has been working really well for the last few weeks. Now with this model it should be working much better. Hope the Google AI Pro Subscription can be used to do some real agentic coding now.

I've been really satisfied with it since 3.6, it's been "good enough" for the tasks I'm using and has fast response and very high limits, much higher than Claude Code. I continually don't understand how nobody points out Flash 3.6 being much faster than any other model, and seems 3.7 is even faster still. That by itself is a major selling point.