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This guide has been updated to cover the current Gemini 3.x model family. Please see the new guide at the link below.
This guide has been updated. The Gemini 2.5 model family has been superseded by the Gemini 3.x generation, including Gemini 3.5 Flash, Gemini 3.1 Pro, Gemini Omni, and Deep Think.
Please read the updated guide: Google Gemini 3.5 Complete Guide 2026
Aug 14, 2026
Google shipped Gemini 3.7 Flash on August 14, 2026, three weeks after 3.6 Flash, at half the price. Its own launch charts show the new Flash model beating Claude Sonnet 5 and GPT-5.6 Terra on three of four benchmarks — but Grok 4.6 doesn't appear on a single one of them. explainx.ai lays out Google's numbers honestly, cross-references Grok 4.6 from a separate source, and flags exactly where the comparison stops being apples-to-apples.
Aug 13, 2026
Google's official blog.google post confirmed Gemini 3.7 Flash on August 14, 2026 — $0.75/$3.75 per million input/output tokens through the end of 2026, a 1M-token context window, and availability across Antigravity, AI Studio, Android Studio, Gemini Enterprise, and Spark. The pricing leak turned out to be fully accurate; the Gemini 3.5 Pro and Sergey Brin RSI claims did not.
Aug 12, 2026
Google says Gemini is now its fastest-growing product ever at 1 billion monthly users. ChatGPT passed 1 billion weekly users a month earlier — and hit 1 billion monthly back in May. explainx.ai breaks down why the headline parity is a measurement artifact, and what the real usage numbers (63% voice, 150M images/day) tell builders.
