Google Ships Gemini 3.8 Flash, Its Third Flash Model in Six Weeks Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash on September 2, its third Flash-tier model in six weeks, undercutting rivals on price while beating GPT-5.6 Terra and Claude Sonnet 5 on the Terminal-Bench 2.1 coding benchmark. The rapid cadence signals Google is racing to win on cheap, fast models rather than just the biggest ones.
New model: Gemini 3.8 Flash (Google)