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Google’s Gemini 3.8 Flash takes on bigger AI models at a lower cost

Google has introduced Gemini 3.8 Flash, available to developers today, and a gated sibling, Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, reserved for vetted security teams. Google CEO Sundar Pichai said on X that it makes sizable gains over 3.7 Flash in software engineering, agentic work, and multi-step reasoning, and on the DeepSWE v1.1 benchmark it beats most larger frontier models at solving complex engineering problems end to end.

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Google has introduced Gemini 3.8 Flash, available to developers today, and a gated sibling, Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, reserved for vetted security teams. “Our 3rd Flash release in just 6 wks,” Google CEO Sundar Pichai said on X, adding that it makes sizable gains over 3.7 Flash in software engineering, agentic work, and multi-step reasoning. On the DeepSWE v1.1 benchmark, Google says it beats most larger frontier models at solving complex engineering problems end to … More

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