Google Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite

This is the fastest lightweight model. Google has been releasing the Flash model shortly after releasing the Pro models, Jeff Dean in the Latent Space Pod confirmed that the flash models are a distillation of the Pro models. Flash 2.0 and 2.5 were the SOTA for PDF extraction, great at OCR, and summary operation due to the decent quality with the lowest cost. Sources: Blog post, tweet, tweet arena