Google Launches Gemini 3.7 Flash With Price Cut as Flagship Model Remains MIA
Summary
Google launches Gemini 3.7 Flash with a 50% price cut to $0.75 per million input tokens and major coding improvements, but the long-promised flagship Gemini 3.5 Pro remains missing, fueling speculation that Google is dodging direct competition with OpenAI and Anthropic amid reports of falling behind in AI capabilities and a talent exodus.
Key Points
- Google releases Gemini 3.7 Flash just three weeks after Gemini 3.6 Flash, touting substantial improvements in coding and agentic performance with benchmark scores jumping significantly across tests like FrontierCode and DeepSWE.
- Google is cutting the price of Gemini 3.7 Flash in half to $0.75 per million input tokens, though it still faces stiff competition from OpenAI's GPT 5.6 Luna model priced at just $0.20 per million input tokens.
- The long-promised flagship Gemini 3.5 Pro, which was supposed to launch in June, remains absent, raising speculation that Google is deliberately avoiding direct comparisons with the latest releases from OpenAI and Anthropic amid reports of falling behind in coding capabilities and an exodus of AI talent.