Google's Gemini 3.2 Flash reportedly nears GPT-5.5 at a fraction of the cost
Gemini 3.2 Flash reportedly hits 92% of GPT-5.5's coding and reasoning performance while running 15 to 20 times cheaper on inference. Powered by DeepMind's distillation and sparsity techniques, it also reportedly pushes response times below 200ms. If true, developers may get near-frontier capability without the frontier price tag.