{"type":"post","slug":"a-model-launch-is-now-a-routing-and-distribution-event","title":"A Model Launch Is Now a Routing and Distribution Event","description":"The Gemini 3.7 Flash card reads as a routing document: same base as 3.6 Flash, 1M context, agentic video, and customizable thinking configurations that trade quality against cost and latency.","retrieval_nugget":"The Gemini 3.7 Flash card reads as a routing document: same base as 3.6 Flash, 1M context, agentic video, and customizable thinking configurations that trade quality against cost and latency.","published_at":"2026-08-14","updated_at":"2026-09-12","record_date":"2026-08-14","date_kind":"discovered_at","topics":["new-models","routing","platforms"],"entities":["Google 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