Which is faster: Gemini 3.5 Flash or Kimi K2.6 on Cerebras?

Google launched Gemini 3.5 Flash at Google I/O 2026 with an unusual emphasis on speed over capability, entering a market where processing times for advanced AI models have ballooned from seconds to hours. Cerebras conducted a direct comparison between Gemini 3.5 Flash and Kimi K2.6 running on its wafer-scale WSE-3 infrastructure, examining output speed, end-to-end response times, and latency across various use cases to determine which delivers superior performance.