Google I/O 2026: Everything on Gemini Omni and Gemini 3.5 Flash

Speed and cost

Google describes Omni as a "high-speed" model for rapid video generation . As of June 2026, no per-token API pricing has been published for developer access. However, Gemini Omni Flash is free to use inside YouTube Shorts Remix for all eligible users (age 18+), and available via subscription (Google AI Plus, Pro, or Ultra) inside the Gemini app .

Where you can use it

• YouTube Shorts Remix — free, inside the YouTube mobile app .
• Gemini app — for Google AI Plus, Pro, and Ultra subscribers .
• Google Flow — Google's professional creative surface with reference blending and scene-by-scene iteration .
• Google Flow Music — for AI-assisted music video creation .
• Gemini API / Google AI Studio — available as gemini-omni-flash-preview for developers using the Interactions API .

First industry partner

At I/O, Google announced a partnership with Believe / TuneCore to bring Lyria 3 Pro and Gemini Omni tools to artists, producers, and songwriters .

Gemini 3.5 Flash — Frontier intelligence that can take action

What it is and what it does

Gemini 3.5 Flash is Google's first model that combines frontier-level intelligence with agentic (action-taking) capabilities . It surpasses the previous Gemini 3.1 Pro on coding, agentic, and multimodal benchmarks . The model supports a context window of up to 1.0 million tokens and can generate up to 66,000 output tokens per response .

Speed

Google says Gemini 3.5 Flash is 4x faster than competing frontier models in output tokens per second . CEO Sundar Pichai described it as "a very capable model, at the frontier and comparable to the best models, but it's still very fast" .

Pricing (as of June 2026, per official Gemini API pricing)

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This pricing is roughly 40% cheaper than Gemini 3.1 Pro .

Where you can use it

• Gemini consumer app — default model .
• AI Mode in Google Search .
• Google Antigravity (agent-first development platform) .
• Gemini API / Google AI Studio .
• Android Studio .
• Vertex AI on Google Cloud .

Industry partners

As of June 2026, no named external enterprise partners have been publicly confirmed for Gemini 3.5 Flash specifically (unlike the Believe/TuneCore deal for Omni). It is primarily available as a platform model for all developers via API and cloud services.

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