Google and OpenAI both pushed the same message today: AI is now fast enough to feel impressive for those who use AI agents, each company announcing ultra fast models.
The two launches are built differently, and only one is actually in your hands today.
Myriad: When will OpenAI release GPT-6? Click to make your prediction. Today we're introducing Gemini 3.7 Flash, our most intelligent workhorse model yet for coding and agents.
This model brings substantial gains across software engineering, web development, and complex knowledge work.
Gemini 3.7 Flash is a general-availability model. It takes up to a million input tokens (roughly 750,000 words) and returns 64,000, handling text, images, video, audio and PDFs, and it can call tools and control a computer. Google is pitching it as the cheap brain for autonomous systems that plan tasks and finish multi-step jobs with less human help.
The model is not sacrificing quality for speed. It is both more capable and more efficient, being able to complete our test coding task in 2 minutes and 13 seconds whereas the latest Flash model took more than 5 minutes. The quality gap between the two is also noticeable.
Previewing Ultrafast mode: GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 14x the speed.
Cerebras' wafer-scale chips generate up to 750 tokens a second, about 560 words, fast enough that a voice agent can think mid-call.
The numbers that matterGoogle's own benchmark sheet puts Gemini 3.7 Flash ahead of Claude Sonnet 5, GPT-5.6 Terra, and others on 11 of 18 tested categories, including a top Code Arena web-dev score of 1,588 Elo and 30.4% on AutomationBench for enterprise workflows. That’s all based on Google's methodology, so treat the lead as the company's claim.
As any Gemini Flash, the model is also cheap. At 75 cents per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens through year-end, it's half of Gemini 3.6 Flash's original rate. That intro price expires December 31, then doubles to $1.50 and $7.50, which is still cheap for a Google model.
Gemini 3.7 Flash is live now in more than 160 countries; GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast is still invite-only.
