A cyber specialist model is restricted to governments and trusted partners

Claim

Google shipped Gemini 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite for everyone and 3.5 Flash Cyber for almost no one, restricting the cyber specialist to governments and trusted partners, while Cisco released open-weight 350M and 1B security models that beat far larger models at pinpointing vulnerabilities and run locally.

Reporting date: 2026-07-22 (not necessarily the event date)

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