Google launches Gemini 3 Flash and makes it default AI model on Gemini app
Posted on: Dec 17, 2025 22:45 IST | Posted by: Livemint
presently after the twin 3 Pro set in motion, Google has launched the twin 3 twinkle AI model, which has also become the default AI model on the Gemini app. The tech giant allows free users to ask limited queries to its Thinking model while the rest of the queries are directed to the non-reasoning model which is denoted as ‘Fast’ in the Gemini app.
“Gemini 3 Flash demonstrates that speed and scale don’t have to come at the cost of intelligence. It delivers frontier performance on PhD-level reasoning and knowledge benchmarks like GPQA Diamond (90.4%) and Humanity’s Last Exam (33.7% without tools), rivaling larger frontier models, and significantly outperforming even the best 2.5 model, Gemini 2.5 Pro, across a number of benchmarks.” Google said in a blogpost
Gemini 3: What's new?
Google says Gemini 3 Flash is 3 times faster than the Gemini 2.5 Pro model on the Artificial Analysis benchmark while running at a fraction of the cost. For context, Gemini 2.5 Pro had remained among the top ranking models across benchmarks for months until Google released its Gemini 3 Pro models last month.
In the coveted, Humanity's Last Exam benchmark Gemini 3 Flash gets a score of 33%, which is higher than the scores of Grok 4.1 Fast (17.6%) and Claude Sonnet 4.5(13.7%) while being just below GPT-5.2 (34.5%).
In the SWE-bench Verified, a benchmark for coding related tasks, the Gemini 3 Flash gets a score of 78% which puts it ahead of Claude 4.5 Sonnet (77.2%) and close to the heels of GPT-5.2 (80.0%).
Meanwhile, in the ARC-AGI-2 benchmark for visual reasoning related tasks, the Gemini 3 Flash outperformed not just Claude and Gemini 2.5 Pro but even the latest Gemini 3 Pro model.
Where can use Gemini 3 Flash?
Gemini 3 Flash is now already the default model in Gemini and users don't need to pay any extra cost for leveraging its capabilities. Meanwhile, the model now also powers the AI Mode in Search which allows users to ask questions in conversational style, much like Perplexity.
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