AIJun 8, 2026
Google makes Gemini 3.5 Flash the default for AI Mode in Search worldwide
Google has rolled out Gemini 3.5 Flash as the new default model behind AI Mode in Search, for everyone, globally. The company says it delivers sustained frontier-level performance for agentic and coding tasks at a fraction of the latency of its larger siblings. Google is pairing the change with new information agents arriving first for AI Pro and Ultra subscribers this summer.
Why it matters: Putting a frontier-grade model in front of Search’s billions of users by default is how AI answers stop being a separate tab and become the way search works.