While Anthropic hypes its unreleased Mythos AI model as dangerously powerful, Google is changing the conversation — to cost and speed. Google says its latest Gemini 3.5 Flash model rivals frontier offerings, while saving money for companies that are racking up huge bills by churning through billions of tokens, the core unit of AI usage. "Companies are already blowing through their annual token budgets and it's only May," Google CEO Sundar Pichai said recently. "If companies used a mix of Flash and other fro ...