Artificial intelligence · May 2026

Gemini 3.5

A Flash model overtakes the previous generation's Pro.

Gemini 3.5 Flash beat Gemini 3.1 Pro on Terminal-Bench 2.1 (76.2%) and MCP Atlas (83.6%), showing how quickly frontier capability moves into cheap, fast tiers.

See it in the living tree Wikipedia Source

Arcs above join it to what it stood on, arcs below to what it led to. The bar places this stretch on the tree's whole timeline.

What it built on 1

Gemini 3.1 Pro 2026

Related measurements

The dashed line marks when it first worked.

Best AI score on GPQA Diamond Latest: 95.8 % correct (2026) Source: Epoch AI, Capabilities & benchmarking (benchmark_data.zip, gpqa_diamond.csv); Anthropic: Claude 3 public launch (March 4, 2024)

Training compute of notable AI models Source: Epoch AI, Notable AI Models (CC BY 4.0)