Research2026-08-06

ARC Prize published verified ARC-AGI results for Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, released Jul 21, 2026, tested across four reasoning-effort variants. At high effort the model scored 53.5% on ARC-AGI-1 Semi-Private at $0.09 per task and 10.3% on ARC-AGI-2 Semi-Private at $0.14 per task. Scores fall steadily with effort: medium reaches 32.3% on ARC-AGI-1 and 5.3% on ARC-AGI-2, low reaches 17.0% and 1.5%, and minimal reaches 7.5% and 0.8%. No ARC-AGI-3 results were reported for any variant. Per-task pass/fail detail was published for the 120-task ARC-AGI-2 public eval and the 400-task ARC-AGI-1 public eval. ARC Prize published results for Gemini 3.6 Flash in the same period.

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