{"id":321523,"date":"2025-12-17T20:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T20:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/321523\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T20:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T20:00:08","slug":"googles-gemini-3-flash-model-outperforms-gpt-5-2-in-some-benchmarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/321523\/","title":{"rendered":"Google’s Gemini 3 Flash model outperforms GPT-5.2 in some benchmarks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Almost exactly a month after the debut of Gemini 3 Pro<\/a> in November, Google has begun rolling out the more efficient Flash version of its latest AI model. According to the company, the new system offers similar “pro-grade” reasoning performance as its flagship model at a fraction of the cost, making it ideal for everyday use.<\/p>\n

In benchmarks, the new system performed significantly better than Google’s previous generation models, including Gemini 2.5 Pro. More notably, in Google\u2019s testing it managed to trade blows with GPT-5.2<\/a>, the model OpenAI rushed out to counter Gemini 3 Pro.<\/p>\n

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A table comparing Gemini 3 Flash’s performance across a variety of AI benchmarks. (Google)<\/p>\n

For example, in the tough Humanity’s Last Exam<\/a> suite, Gemini 3 Flash scored less than a percentage point worse than GPT-5.2 when neither model had access to tools like web search. In a handful of other benchmarks, Google’s more efficient system even managed to outperform OpenAI’s latest. For instance, in MMMU-Pro, a benchmark designed to test a model’s multimodal understanding and reasoning, it edged out GPT-5.2 with a result of 81.2 percent compared to 79.5 percent. Of course, benchmarks only tell a partial story; we’ll have to see what people think once both systems are broadly available. Still, the fact Gemini 3 Flash is even close to GPT-5.2, and the “Extra High” reasoning mode at that, is a worrying sign for OpenAI<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As with Gemini 3 Pro, Google is rolling out the new model to both the Gemini App<\/a> and AI Mode in Search<\/a> where it will be the default model for both services. “That means all of our Gemini users globally will get access to the Gemini 3 experience at no cost, giving their everyday tasks a major upgrade,” Google explains. While on the subject of AI Mode, it’s now possible to access Nano Banana Pro<\/a>, Google’s latest image generator, directly from the chatbot. Provided you live in the US, select “Thinking with 3 Pro,” followed by “Create Images Pro” from the model picker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Almost exactly a month after the debut of Gemini 3 Pro in November, Google has begun rolling out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,844,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-321523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-google","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}