Google is announcing a new Gemini model today, but it’s not the long-awaited 3.5 Pro. Gemini 3.7 Flash is now rolling out to replace 3.6 Flash, which itself was released only three weeks ago. This new “workhorse” model offers improved coding and agentic performance, with a lower “introductory price”.

According to Senior Director Tulsee Doshi, Gemini 3.7 Flash is noticeably better at coding. The Frontier Code 1.1 Main test jumped from 34.4 to 43.6 percent and Deep SWE v1.1 from 49 to 65.3 percent. The Web Dev Arena score rose to 1,588 from 1,538. Modest improvements in document processing (GDP.pdf benchmark up to 34 percent versus 22 percent) and automation (Automation Bench at 30.4 percent from 17 percent) are also seen.

Those numbers are higher, but are they sufficiently different to support a new model release just three weeks after the last one? This may be about maintaining the appearance of constant improvements. Throughout 2024 and 2025, Google rapidly made up ground to rival competing AI labs, but things appear to have slowed in 2026. At I/O in May, Google promised the flagship Gemini 3.5 Pro would launch in June, but that never happened.