Gemini 3 Flash added to Japan’s secure municipal AI platform Zevo

Japan’s municipal IT stack is quietly becoming a testbed for multimodal foundation models in the public sector. By slotting Gemini 3 Flash into Zevo, Shift Plus is effectively giving local governments a menu of high-end models—ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini—that they can use inside a secure LGWAN environment. That’s a big step up from the early days of ad hoc ChatGPT pilots running over the open internet.

From an AGI race perspective, this matters less for raw capability and more for institutional learning. Dozens or hundreds of municipalities experimenting with daily-use workflows—document drafting, citizen queries, internal analytics—will generate a rich picture of what robust, safety-conscious deployment looks like in government. It also strengthens Google’s position in Japan’s public sector just as Gemini 3 comes online, reinforcing the idea that frontier labs will compete not just on models but on how easily those models integrate into national IT backbones.