Google makes Gemini video analysis goal-directed and more efficient

Gemini can now actively search long videos across frames, audio and transcripts instead of processing them at a fixed sampling rate.

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Google launched agentic video understanding across Gemini 3.7 Flash, 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite in the Gemini API, AI Studio and Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. Google reports up to 88% lower token consumption, 66% lower analysis cost and 7% higher accuracy on its standard benchmarks, with Gemini app and Ask YouTube rollouts planned.

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The update shifts video understanding from passive ingestion towards tool-using, goal-directed analysis, making long recordings and fine-grained events more practical to process.

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