Google Launches Gemini 3 Flash AI Model as Default in Gemini App and Search
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Emma Roth
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Summary
Google is launching Gemini 3 Flash, a more efficient version of its flagship AI model that will replace Gemini 2.5 Flash as the default model in the Gemini app and Google Search. The new model combines the reasoning capabilities of Gemini 3 Pro with the speed, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness of the Flash series, arriving one month after the launch of Gemini 3 Pro which showed advancements in reasoning, coding, and multimodal processing.
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The new model will replace Gemini 2.5 Flash as the default inside the Gemini app, and it's headed to Google Search, too.
Google says Gemini 3 Flash 'retains this foundation, combining Gemini 3's Pro-grade reasoning with Flash-level latency, efficiency and cost.'
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