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AI Models

Google Unveils Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Cyber Model

Google has released three new Gemini models: 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber. The 3.6 Flash model offers improved coding and knowledge work with 17% fewer output tokens and lower costs. The 3.5 Flash-Lite is the fastest in the series at 350 tokens per second, designed for high-throughput agentic tasks. The 3.5 Flash Cyber model, available only to governments and trusted partners via CodeMender, focuses on finding and fixing cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Google also noted that Gemini 3.5 Pro is being tested with partners and that pre-training for Gemini 4 has begun.

Jul 215 minNeura News
AI Models

Google Unveils Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Cyber Model

Google DeepMind has introduced three new Gemini models: 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber. The 3.6 Flash model offers improved coding and multimodal performance with 17% fewer output tokens and lower cost. The 3.5 Flash-Lite is the fastest in its series at 350 output tokens per second, designed for high-throughput agentic tasks. The 3.5 Flash Cyber, fine-tuned for cybersecurity, will be available exclusively to governments and trusted partners via the CodeMender agent.

Jul 216 minNeura News
AI Models

Alibaba Qwen Audio 3.0 TTS Plus Tops Speech Arena Leaderboard

Alibaba's Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS-Plus has claimed the top spot on Artificial Analysis' Speech Arena leaderboard for provider voices, achieving an Elo score of 1,236. The model narrowly beats SpeechifyAI's Simba 3.2 (1,234) and other competitors like Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS and Sonic 3.5. Available in Flash and Plus versions, it supports 16 languages and offers natural language style control, though its speed lags behind rivals.

Jul 212 minNeura News
Product Launch

Google Vids Adds AI Avatars Based on Selfies and Voice Recordings

Google announced an update to Google Vids that lets users create custom digital avatars from a selfie and voice recording. The company also brought its multi-modal AI model Gemini Omni to the platform, enabling video creation from text prompts and reference images, along with step-by-step editing. The updates position Vids as a broader video creation tool within Google Workspace, competing with startups like HeyGen and Synthesia.

Jul 162 minNeura News
AI Models

NVIDIA Confidential Computing Powers Apple Private Cloud Compute Expansion

NVIDIA announced that its GPUs with Confidential Computing are now used for confidential inference in Apple's Private Cloud Compute (PCC) as Apple expands PCC beyond its own data centers to Google Cloud. The integration, unveiled at Apple's WWDC 2026, uses NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs to support server-side inference for Apple Foundation Models, built by Apple and Google using technologies behind the Gemini family of models. The hardware-based security layer ensures that no one, including system builders, can access user data during processing.

Jun 93 minNeura News
Research

Google Deepmind AI Solves Decades-Old Math Problems Cheaply

Google Deepmind's AlphaProof Nexus framework autonomously solved nine of 353 open Erdős problems, including two unanswered for 56 years, at an inference cost of a few hundred dollars each. The system uses Gemini 3.1 Pro to generate proof steps in Lean's formal language, with compiler feedback grounding the language model's reasoning. It also tackled 44 OEIS conjectures and settled a 15-year-old algebraic geometry question.

May 254 minNeura News
AI Models

Hassabis sees AI singularity soon; LeCun says LLMs not intelligent

At Google I/O 2026, DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis declared humanity is entering the singularity, predicting AGI within five years. Yann LeCun of AMI Labs countered that current language models lack true intelligence, which he defines as solving new problems without prior training. Gemini co-lead Oriol Vinyals offered a middle ground, acknowledging models are strong in code and math but still missing experiential learning.

May 243 minNeura News