Google releases Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite at 1/8th the cost of Pro

Google's newest AI model is here: Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, and the biggest improvements this time around come in cost and speed, especially for enterprises and developers seeking to leverage powerful reasoning and multimodal capabilities from the U.S. search and cloud giant.Positioning it as the most cost-efficient and responsive model in the Gemini 3 series, Google is offering a solution built specifically for intelligence at scale. This launch arrives just weeks after the February debut of its heavy-lifting sibling, Gemini 3.1 Pro, completing a tiered strategy that allows enterprises to scale intelligence across every layer of their infrastructure.Technology: optimized for the "time to first token"In the world of high-throughput AI, the metric that often dictates user experience isn't just