The latest AI news we announced in August 2026
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Google presented its major AI updates from August 2026. Key launches included Gemini 3.7 Flash, a fast coding model costing half as much as its predecessor, new Pixel 11 phones designed for AI, and Gemini 3.5 Transcribe for speech-to-text.
The Gemini app surpassed 1 billion monthly users. Google is also offering one year of free Gemini plan for university students worldwide, and introduced new video generation and weather forecasting AI tools.
We released Gemini 3.7 Flash as our most intelligent workhorse model yet for coding and agents. It arrived just three weeks after our launch of 3.6 Flash, delivering substantial improvements across software engineering, knowledge work, and web development workflows — with an introductory price of half the original 3.6
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