alt Hacker NewsWait, I didn't realize 3.7 Flash was already beating Sol on a bunch of the benchmarks. Isn't it a way smaller models?
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It's pretty good if you can actively steer it , its actually really really good , the antigravity free tier and pro tiers are generous as well . I'm shocked at how fast it generates tokens.
Gemini 3.7 Flash was already smashing more expensive models on my Redactle benchmark https://redactle.net/llm-leaderboard which mostly tests omniscience.
They're quite selective in benchmarks, c.f. notably only bad one is 10% on TerminalBench. It's a really addled model, one time I said "Hi" and it built out a 4 panel hello world app with (fake) weather, a todo list, and a couple other things I forgot. I wouldn't be comfortable saying "ignore the #s!" except when I complained it was trash and way overcooked on agentic coding yet not good at it, and a couple DeepMind ML people liked the tweet.
IDK if it's smaller, but I know it's way faster. In one test I did, Flash 3.7 high was ~9.4x faster than Luna High.
But, also... Sol crushes Flash 3.7 at writing code in a codebase of any size beyond "tiny".
Flash is my go-to for prototyping, and basically anything that isn't writing production code.