Gemini

Releases

1. Sep 30

   Gemini 4 Argon

2. Sep 15

   Gemini 3.8 Live

3. Sep 2

   Gemini 3.8 Flash

4. Aug 13

   Gemini 3.7 Flash

5. Jul 30

   Gemini Robotics 2

6. Jul 21

   Gemini 3.6 Flash

7. May 19

   Gemini 3.5 Flash · Lite, Cyber

8. May 19

   Gemini Omni Flash

9. Apr 15

   Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS

10. Apr 14

    Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6

11. Mar 26

    Gemini 3.1 Flash Live

Trends

• Voice AI splits into commodity APIs and reasoning-grade agents
• Frontier cyber capability ships to defenders behind gated access
• Offensive AI cyber risk moves from evaluations into the wild
• Robotics and world models attract capital on the way to deployment
• Price competition adds speed and time-of-day tiers

Items

1. Sep 30

   Google's Gemini 4 Argon

   A new-generation frontier model that expands the output limit to an industry-leading 1M tokens, sets state of the art on DeepSWE v1.1 (77.9%) and ties first on CWE-bench v1 (68%), and is rolling out first to cyber defenders via the Fairwind Program at a $2/$10 per 1M-token introductory price.

2. Sep 24

   Google's Gemini 3.8 Live with avatars

   Adds near-real-time video avatars to Gemini's live-dialogue models, with lip-synced expressions across 97 languages and asynchronous tool calls that run mid-conversation, available in Gemini Enterprise.

3. Sep 15

   Google's Gemini 3.8 Live and Extended Thinking

   Two production live-dialogue models reason while speaking; the Extended Thinking variant tops Artificial Analysis' Speech-to-Speech Quality Index (82.6) and scores 68.6% on τ-Voice, shipping across the Gemini API, Workspace, and Search.

4. Sep 2

   Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash and Flash Cyber

   Google's third Flash release in six weeks holds the 3.7 price ($0.75/$3.75 per 1M tokens) while improving reasoning and long-horizon coding, and adds a defender-only Flash Cyber variant that exceeds 70% real-world vulnerability discovery across 20 languages.

5. Aug 13

   Google's Gemini 3.7 Flash

   Google's workhorse coding-and-agent model shipped three weeks after 3.6 Flash at half the price ($0.75/$3.75 per 1M tokens introductory), scoring 43.6% on FrontierCode 1.1 (vs 34.4%) and 65.3% on DeepSWE v1.1 (vs 49.0%), with updated CBRN and cyber safeguards.

6. Jul 30

   Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 2

   A vision-language-action family (Robotics 2, ER 2, and On-Device 2) that adds whole-body humanoid control, multi-finger dexterity, and multi-robot collaboration, with an on-device variant that adapts to new robot embodiments in a few hours.

7. Jul 21

   Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Flash Cyber

   3.6 Flash costs $1.50/$7.50 per million tokens and uses 17% fewer output tokens than 3.5 Flash (49% vs 37% on DeepSWE), Flash-Lite runs at 350 tokens/sec for $0.30/$2.50, and 3.5 Flash Cyber is limited to governments and trusted partners; Google also confirmed Gemini 4 pretraining has begun.

8. Jun 30

   Nano Banana 2 Lite and Gemini Omni Flash

   Google's fastest, cheapest Gemini image model arrived alongside a video generation and conversational editing model priced at $0.10 per second of output, matching Veo 3.1 Fast, in the Gemini API, AI Studio, and Enterprise Agent Platform.

9. May 19

   Google's Gemini Omni Flash

   The first Omni-family model generates and conversationally edits video from any mix of text, image, audio, and video, with improved physics reasoning and SynthID watermarks, available to Google AI subscribers and in YouTube Shorts.

10. May 19

    Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash

    The new default for the Gemini app and AI Mode beats Gemini 3.1 Pro on Terminal-Bench 2.1 (76.2%), GDPval-AA (1656 Elo), MCP Atlas (83.6%), and CharXiv Reasoning (84.2%) while running 4x faster than comparable frontier models; Gemini 3.5 Pro targets June.

11. Apr 14

    Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6

    An upgraded embodied-reasoning model for robots adds instrument reading (analog gauges and industrial readouts via agentic vision and code execution) and improves on ER 1.5 in spatial reasoning, task planning, success detection, and physical-safety instruction following; available via the Gemini API.

12. Apr 15

    Google DeepMind's Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS

    An expressive text-to-speech model that joins the real-time Flash Live model in the Gemini 3.1 Flash audio family, with SynthID watermarks on all outputs.

13. Mar 26

    Google DeepMind's Gemini 3.1 Flash Live

    A real-time audio model that leads ComplexFuncBench Audio for multi-step tool calling and Scale AI's Audio MultiChallenge (36.1% with thinking), supports 90+ languages, watermarks all output with SynthID, and powers Gemini Live and Search Live in 200+ countries.