Google announced Gemini 3.5 Flash at Google I/O 2026, noting a significant price increase for the model. The company also revealed a substantial AI-driven transformation of its Search product. Additionally, ByteDance unveiled a new 3B multimodal model. AI
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IMPACT Sets new SOTA on coding benchmarks; pressures Anthropic to respond.
RANK_REASON Frontier-lab model release with system card. [lever_c_demoted from frontier_release: ic=1 ai=1.0]