Google’s New Gemini 3 Flash Rivals Frontier Models at a Fraction of the Cost

There’s no end in sight for the current LLM release cycle. Within the last 30 days, we’ve seen the launches of Google’s Gemini 3 Pro, Anthropic’s Opus 4.5, and OpenAI’s GPT-5.2. That’s in addition to models from A2AI, DeepSeek, Grok, Mistral, Nvidia …