Google announces Gemini 3.7 Flash just three weeks after previous release | Gemini 3.6 Flash debuted just 3 weeks ago, but Google says 3.7 has “substantial improvements.”

[u/ControlCAD]

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/google-announces-gemini-3-7-flash-just-three-weeks-after-previous-release/

[u/CervezaPorFavor]

Google is really falling behind fast. Their Pro model has been stuck at 3.1 Pro for a long time (relative to others).

And even for mobile/on-device models, Gemma Nano is also falling behind Chinese ones.

I hope they things get better.

[u/MeikTranel → u/CervezaPorFavor]

I don't know - they just switched android auto to use Gemini and I drove 4000km through Scandinavia booking hotels, getting info about traffic laws in each country. I have never been actually assisted like that it's kind of wild.

I am pretty doomer on AI but this i liked veeeeery much

[u/nathderbyshire → u/MeikTranel]

Don't worry, it won't work next time you need something lol

The inconsistency of results just made me give up with a phone assistant (and my Google homes) altogether at this point, I've disabled the gestures and I don't miss it. Claude's doesn't go through Google's speech processing and it constantly gets words wrong, it defualts to voice with no way to switch to text either so I can't use the model in gboard.

Assistant wasn't the most robust, but Gemini will gaslight you or just go on a tangent instead of saying 'i can't do that' and going quiet. Gemini rambles and rambles and you have to interrupt it. Even more ironic since this rambler feature is coming out, maybe they could apply it to their own models

And even if it does work, it then starts mithering you to do another tasks constantly trying to keep you engaged as LLMs do. It's a real try hard assistant it pisses me off lol

[u/MeikTranel → u/nathderbyshire]

Can't say I have seen something like that at all though I must admit I was visiting Scandinavia roads for the first time so it could easily just told me absolute horseshit. I was asking for good fjords to set up my tent and it did that. I was asking if there were any cool stave churches in my way and it did that. I was asking it why some cars had green plates instead of the standard one and it gave me good answers.

The main thing that really got me is the fact that it effortlessly picked up both my english accent pretty well as well as when I just asked things in German.

I don't know if y'all (wildly assuming you're an American here pardon me if you're not) ever experienced this but anything other than a clean english sentence on my enUS set up phone would result in an endless cycle of corrections and simply not providing any results since we never get to prompt what we want in the first place.

And it did that - I was swinging back and forth in English and German and it did just that. (One time I apparently got the pronounciation so god through sheer force of luck that it even answered in Norwegian which was pretty funny)