Overview
- Gemini 3 Flash is live as the default model across the Gemini app and AI Mode in Search, replacing earlier Flash versions.
- Google reports up to 3x faster performance than Gemini 2.5 Flash and claims it outperforms 2.5 Pro while costing less to run.
- Company benchmarks show parity with Gemini 3 Pro and OpenAI’s GPT‑5.2 on select tests, including an 81.2% score on MMMU‑Pro.
- Flash targets fast, repetitive multimodal tasks such as video analysis, data extraction, and visual queries, with more visual answers.
- Tom’s Guide testing describes rapid, detailed outputs, including summarizing and structuring insights from a 75‑page document, and notes the model is free to use by default.