Google Gemini 3.5 Flash/Omni agentic & creative push
Key Questions
What new capabilities does Gemini 3.5 Flash introduce at I/O 2026?
Gemini 3.5 Flash adds agentic coding, Android integration, and Spark features, along with Omni Flash for any-to-any video generation using Veo4. It also supports Deep Research at 93.3% accuracy and real-time speech-to-speech translation via Gemini 3.5 Live Translate.
How does Google's Omni model perform in video tasks?
Omni Flash ranks #1 in the Video Arena for both text-to-video and image-to-video generation, offering strong editing capabilities and consistency features like Flow and action replays. It is positioned as a direct competitor to Nano Banana 2 for video footage.
What pricing and accessibility changes are coming to Google AI services?
Google AI Plus drops to $4.99 per month with 400GB storage included. Gemini 3.5 Flash is now the fastest model overall, and Google Managed Agents are available through the Gemini API.
I/O 2026: Gemini 3.5 Flash agents/coding/Android/Spark; Omni Flash any-to-any video (Veo4, Flow consistency, action replays); Genie sims; Deep Research 93.3%. Nano Banana 2 image models GA with video input; Pomelli branding tool; SRE AI agents in production. Gemini 3.5 Flash crowned fastest model. Google Managed Agents in Gemini API. DeepMind open-sources scientific agent skills. Google LEAP system jumps math reasoning from <10% to 70% on Lean-IMO-Bench. Dreambeans by Google Labs—cross-app AI story briefing. Google AI Plus price drop to $4.99/mo with 400GB storage. New: Gemini 3.5 Live Translate brings real-time speech-to-speech translation to AI Studio, Translate, and Meet.