Google Unveils Gemini 3.6 Flash: 17% Token Efficiency Improvement, Battle of Cost-Performance for Default Agent Models
On July 21, 2026, Google released Gemini 3.6 Flash. Its output token count decreased by 17% compared to 3.5 Flash (up to 65% on the DeepSWE benchmark), with an output pricing of $7.5 per million tokens, and the DeepSWE score rose from 37% to 49%. Also released in the same batch were 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.5 Flash Cyber. On July 28, Gemini API Managed Agents was switched to 3.6 Flash by default, with new features including Environment Hooks, budget control and a free tier. This article sorts out the model capabilities, benchmark data and developer onboarding essentials based on the official blog.
Read MoreDeploying Baidu Wenxin 4.5 Open-Source Model for Android Device Calls
In the previous article "Usage and Deployment of the ERNIE 4.5 Open-Source Large Model", we introduced how to use FastDeploy to deploy the ERNIE 4.5 open-source large model and briefly called its interface. This article will describe how Android can call this deployed interface and implement conversations.
Read MoreUsage and Deployment of ERNIE 4.5 Open-Source Large Model
The ERNIE 4.5 series open-source models consist of a total of 10 models, covering Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models with activation parameter scales of 47B and 3B (with the largest model having a total parameter count of 424B), as well as dense parameter models with 0.3B parameters. Below, we will introduce how to quickly use ERNIE 4.5 models for inference and deploy the interface for client-side calls on platforms such as Android and WeChat Mini Programs. Note that only text-type models are accepted here; in reality, ERNIE 4.5 also has multimodal models.
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