Gemini Flash

Starting October 9, Gemini app users without a Google AI subscription will be limited to Flash-Lite, losing access to Flash and Pro. AI Plus ($4.99/month) subscribers lose Pro, while AI Pro ($19.99/month) gains Deep Think, according to an updated Google support document.

Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash, a multimodal model for AI agents that processes audio and video with a 1 million token context window. Pricing undercuts Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash by roughly 5x on input and 8x on output, according to Qwen.

Google DeepMind has launched agentic video understanding across Gemini 3.7 Flash, 3.6 Flash, and 3.5 Flash-Lite, letting models dynamically scan video segments instead of processing at a fixed frame rate. The company claims the feature cuts token consumption by up to 88%, reduces costs by up to 66%, and improves accuracy by up to 7%.

Google released Gemini Flash Latest on April 27, 2026, a dynamic router that automatically redirects to the newest model in the Gemini Flash family. The model supports 1,048,576 token context window and includes reasoning capabilities.