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This Wednesday morning, Google has made its new Gemini 3.5 Flash model available for free to billions globally, integrating it into the Gemini app and other Google products. Both Mashable and El.kz confirm this model is four times faster than its predecessor, Gemini 3.1 Pro, and excels at coding and supporting AI agents. Google also announced Gemini Omni, a new AI world model with advanced video generation capabilities. Mashable and ForkLog report Omni Flash will allow conversational editing of videos and will be available to all users later this week for YouTube Shorts and in the YouTube Create app, free of charge. Notably, Chrome and Google Search will now use SynthID to detect AI-generated content, an invisible digital watermark to verify AI assistance. In other AI news, Blackstone and Google are launching a new joint venture to build AI cloud infrastructure, committing an initial $5 billion in equity capital. This caused shares of AI infrastructure companies like CoreWeave and Nebius to drop nearly 4.5%, according to econotimes.com. Meanwhile, ByteDance has denied rumors about the imminent release of its AI video generation model, Seedance 2.1, clarifying speculation about its market share and integration into CapCut. Alibaba has unveiled its new AI chip, the Zhenwu M890, designed for memory-intensive AI tasks, and will soon launch its next AI model, Qwen3.7-Max. Benzinga and the South China Morning Post report Alibaba aims to become China's "AI factory," expecting 30 billion yuan in recurring revenue by year-end from its AI models and applications. Finally, Stability AI has released Stability Audio 3.0, a new family of audio models capable of generating professional-grade music over six minutes long. TechCrunch notes some models are openly available, with the largest accessible through an API. For you, this means new, faster AI tools from Google are immediately accessible, potentially changing how you interact with AI for daily tasks and creative projects.