Gemini 3.5 Flash now has built-in computer use
Gemini 3.5 Flash 引入 computer use 功能
Google added a native computer-use tool to Gemini 3.5 Flash, letting the model take screenshots, click buttons, and fill forms to operate web and desktop UIs. It joins Anthropic and OpenAI in baking screen control directly into a model. The post claims 3.5 Flash beats Claude Sonnet 4 and GPT-5 on the WebVoyager benchmark, but Google didn't release full eval details or reproduction steps—hold for third-party tests. Available now via Gemini API and Google AI Studio; pricing and rate limits aren't disclosed in the post.
Why it matters: Google natively integrates computer use into Gemini 3.5 Flash, directly competing with Claude Sonnet 4 and OpenAI's equivalent, with benchmark numbers provided. The gap: it's a blog announcement with no API pricing or real latency data yet — one step short of production-readin...