Google Claims New AI Model Saves Billions

Google unveiled Gemini 3.5 Flash at its I/O developer conference, promising to break the AI industry assumption that smarter models must be slower and more expensive. The model was among several major announcements, including a video-generating world model and a 24/7 personal AI agent. CEO Sundar Pichai said enterprises running roughly one trillion tokens per day on Google Cloud could save over $1 billion annually by shifting 80 percent of workloads to Flash and other frontier models, addressing growing concerns about companies exceeding their AI token budgets.