Google Gemini adds 3.5 Flash, Omni

Google is no longer treating Gemini as a single chatbot; it’s turning it into a model platform, a consumer app, and a creation engine all at once. That makes this a meaningful step up for both builders and end users, but it also raises the bar on whether the experience feels coherent.

• –Gemini 3.5 Flash looks like the main developer-facing release: faster, stronger on coding and agentic tasks, and positioned as the default engine for Google’s new tooling
• –Gemini Omni widens the moat beyond text chat into video generation and editing, which puts Google in direct competition with other multimodal creation stacks
• –Neural Expressive is a signal that Google is finally investing in Gemini’s UX as a product, not just the underlying models
• –The Antigravity, AI Studio, and Android Studio integrations make this feel like a platform play, not a one-off model drop
• –Naming could get messy fast: Gemini 3.5, Omni, Flash, and app features all landing together risks confusing even power users