{"id":320097,"date":"2026-03-03T19:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T19:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/320097\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T19:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T19:34:08","slug":"our-most-cost-effective-ai-model-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/320097\/","title":{"rendered":"Our most cost-effective AI model yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"7gc54\">Today, we&#8217;re introducing Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, our fastest and most cost-efficient Gemini 3 series model. Built for high-volume developer workloads at scale, 3.1 Flash-Lite delivers high quality for its price and model tier.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"f33fa\">Starting today, 3.1 Flash-Lite is rolling out in preview to developers via the Gemini API in <a href=\"https:\/\/aistudio.google.com\/prompts\/new_chat?model=gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google AI Studio<\/a> and for enterprises via <a href=\"https:\/\/console.cloud.google.com\/vertex-ai\/studio\/multimodal?mode=prompt&amp;model=gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vertex AI<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Cost-efficiency without compromise<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"ce2eo\">Priced at just $0.25\/1M input tokens and $1.50\/1M output tokens, 3.1 Flash-Lite delivers enhanced performance at a fraction of the cost of larger models. It outperforms 2.5 Flash with a 2.5X faster Time to First Answer Token and 45% increase in output speed, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/artificialanalysis.ai\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Artificial Analysis benchmark<\/a> while maintaining similar or better quality. This low latency is needed for high-frequency workflows, making it an ideal model for developers to build responsive, real-time experiences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today, we&#8217;re introducing Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, our fastest and most cost-efficient Gemini 3 series model. Built for high-volume&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,85,46,11003,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-320097","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-none","14":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}