We shipped four updates to Claude Managed Agents this week.
First, you can now set a budget for sessions to keep spend predictable. Sessions that hit the limit pause with a budget_reached event, you can raise the budget to resume.
Today, we're introducing not one but TWO new models, striking the balance between efficiency and quality to enable you to build production AI agents.
— Gemini 3.6 Flash: Addresses efficiency feedback we received from Gemini 3.5 Flash with upgrades in coding, knowledge work, and multimodal tasks faster, more accurately, and with substantially fewer tokens per task
— Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite: Our fastest, most cost-effective 3.5-class model yet built for agentic workflows, hitting ~350 output tokens/sec with improved coding and overall quality
Start building with these today via the Gemini API in @GoogleAIStudio or try them out in the @GeminiApp
Seedance 2.0 Mini is now available on fal
Generates videos at approximately twice the speed of Seedance 2.0
Operates at roughly half the cost of standard model
Maintains consistent characters, wardrobe and visual style across multi-shot sequences
Google Flow Agent is your creative partner that can plan and reason through complex tasks with your inputs, under your control.
In this video, you'll see how you can:
✅ Activate your agent
✅ Brainstorm and refine storylines
✅ Maintain character and setting adherence
✅ Generate and edit multiple assets at once
✅ Organize your assets with the help of your agent
Imagine Video 1.5 is generally available in our API: https://t.co/SmAD9BUc0N
We've also rolled out Video 1.5 Fast to consumers with better quality and dramatically less wait.
720p videos now render in about 25 seconds, down from 40+ in our previous model.