One prompt can now drive more of your work More support for defending infrastructure and open source See Claude’s rules updated for newer risks GPT-6 Intelligent UI makes conversations visual and interactive Claude Haiku 5.5 delivers low-cost, high-performance AI Create visual, interactive answers from a simple chat Run high-volume tasks with a cheaper fast model Share new mathematical results on GitHub to accelerate research Easier access to advanced Claude models for security work Run image, audio, and video search on-device with one model Atlassian integration makes company knowledge easier to use Decisions beta speeds up typed answers from text and images Anthropic expands safer access to advanced cyber features Enable text watermarking via API for EU compliance Claude training becomes easier for enterprise teams Anthropic invests in workforce training for enterprise adoption Enterprise adoption and training get easier Google's Gemini 4 Argon makes heavy tasks easier to offload Gemini 4 Argon is built for long professional tasks Use Astra-level performance affordably in daily work One prompt can now drive more of your work More support for defending infrastructure and open source See Claude’s rules updated for newer risks GPT-6 Intelligent UI makes conversations visual and interactive Claude Haiku 5.5 delivers low-cost, high-performance AI Create visual, interactive answers from a simple chat Run high-volume tasks with a cheaper fast model Share new mathematical results on GitHub to accelerate research Easier access to advanced Claude models for security work Run image, audio, and video search on-device with one model Atlassian integration makes company knowledge easier to use Decisions beta speeds up typed answers from text and images Anthropic expands safer access to advanced cyber features Enable text watermarking via API for EU compliance Claude training becomes easier for enterprise teams Anthropic invests in workforce training for enterprise adoption Enterprise adoption and training get easier Google's Gemini 4 Argon makes heavy tasks easier to offload Gemini 4 Argon is built for long professional tasks Use Astra-level performance affordably in daily work

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Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Preview: Fast, Low-Cost Model

Run high-volume tasks cheaply and fast, slashing operational costs.

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Key Points

1Preview in AI Studio/Vertex AI
2$0.25/M input, $1.50/M output tokens
3Strong in translation, UI gen, dashboards
4Ideal for agents, data analysis

Google released Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite in preview via Gemini API. It's faster and cheaper than 2.5 Flash at $0.25/1M input tokens, ideal for high-volume tasks like data extraction and UI generation. Developers can test it now in Google AI Studio and Vertex AI.

What changed

Google released Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite in preview via Gemini API. It's faster and cheaper than 2.5 Flash at $0.25/1M input tokens, ideal for high-volume tasks like data extraction and UI generation. Developers can test it now in Google AI Studio and Vertex AI.

Why it matters

Run high-volume tasks cheaply and fast, slashing operational costs.

What to watch

Run high-volume tasks cheaply and fast, slashing operational costs. Key checks: Preview in AI Studio/Vertex AI / $0.25/M input, $1.50/M output tokens / Strong in translation, UI gen, dashboards.