Gemini 3.5 Flash: You really need your own benchmarks. If you are translating hieroglyphics, use Gemini 3.5 Flash. If you are running a vending machine use Opus 4.8.
Google DeepMind silently released Gemini 3.5 Flash via API on May 19, 2026. The model ranks #11 on LM Arena with a score of 1479.46 and #4 on agentic benchmarks with a score of 94, highlighting the need for task-specific…