
There’s a recurring ritual in the tech world: predicting Google’s demise every year. In 2023, everyone said Google would be overturned by ChatGPT. In 2024, everyone claimed Google’s AI was a mess. In 2025, everyone declared Google had fallen behind. Then in 2026, Gemini 3.5 Flash arrived—the fastest in the world—directly replacing its own flagship, Search AI Mode, while monthly active users quietly surpassed one billion. At the live demo, Google showed: 12 hours, 93 sub-agents working in parallel, building an entire operating system. Is “America’s DouBao” about to rise?
