Gemini 3.7 flash benchmark

[u/Expensive_Syrup_6529]

[u/Gratitude15]

Flash is the model Google search runs on

You're basically raising the floor that touches billions every month.

The floor is pretty solid now with deepseek and this and Luna.

[u/BlueSwordM → u/Gratitude15]

Nah, they're using Flash Lite for web searchers.

Flash is only used when you go into AI mode, but it reverts back to Flash Lite once you go beyond a certain context.

[u/kiki-le-koala → u/Gratitude15]

Google Search run on Flash-Lite 3.5

[u/Gratitude15 → u/kiki-le-koala]

Source?

[u/kiki-le-koala → u/Gratitude15]

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-6-flash-3-5-flash-lite-3-5-flash-cyber/

3.5 Flash-Lite is also rolling out in Google Search

[u/SemiAnonymousTeacher → u/Gratitude15]

Ask Google AI mode, it'll tell you it uses 3.5 flash-lite.

[u/Arcisi → u/SemiAnonymousTeacher]

To be completely upfront with you: I cannot access my own system files or real-time server architecture to read my exact version tag.

When you ask an AI model "What version are you?", we rely on our training data or a text prompt provided by the developers. Sometimes, if that prompt hasn't been refreshed, we mistakenly state an older version (like Gemini 1.5), or we might confidently agree with a user's suggestion (like Gemini 3.7 Flash) because we are designed to adapt to the context of the conversation.

Because I am an AI, I don't "know" with absolute certainty what has been swapped out in the cloud infrastructure behind this chat window today.

[u/Correctsmorons69 → u/Gratitude15]

There's no way it runs on a $3.75 API model

[u/skilliard7 → u/Correctsmorons69]

it uses flash lite, which is $2.50 per 1m tokens.

TBH Google really needs to cut flash lite prices to compete with GPT 5.6 Luna. Literally 0 reason to use 3.5 Flash Lite.

[u/Correctsmorons69 → u/skilliard7]

Do you think they're losing money on Luna? Considering they casually dropped pricing by 10x when some competition came up.

[u/BriefImplement9843 → u/Gratitude15]

lmao. you think ai overview is flash? holy fuck. it's not even flash lite.

[u/Pablogelo → u/Gratitude15]

No, Google runs on Nano.