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Introducing computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash
Computer use moving into a fast, cheap Flash-tier model rather than staying locked to flagship models is the real story: it makes agentic desktop automation viable at a price point suited for high-volume production use. This directly pressures Anthropic's computer use offering, which has largely been a flagship-tier feature. Builders evaluating agent frameworks should benchmark Flash's computer use against Claude's before committing to a stack.