Gemini agentic video cuts token use 88%

Google launched agentic video understanding across Gemini 3.7 Flash, 3.6 Flash, and 3.5 Flash-Lite, reporting up to 88% lower token consumption, 66% lower analysis cost, and 7% higher accuracy in its official benchmark report. Instead of processing every frame at a fixed rate, the feature searches relevant frames, audio, and transcripts on demand. Builders handling long-form video should test this mode against their current sampling pipeline before budgeting more context; Gemini 3.7 Flash’s earlier price cut makes the savings a deployment question, not only a model-quality claim.