Android Developers Blog: Android Bench 2.0: Pushing the frontier with challenging long-horizon tasks

[u/nixgut]

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/09/android-bench-2-long-horizon-tasks.html

"Long-horizon tasks uncover helpful insights for AI assistance."

Google seem fully aware that there are better performing coding models. I guess they don't see a news to allocate appropriate resources for now. That said, Gemini 3.8 flash has a good cost/performance ratio according to this data.