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Introducing Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
Google DeepMind · Published · 3 min read
In 30 seconds
- What happened
- Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash, a reasoning and coding model at 3.7 Flash pricing, plus Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber for cybersecurity vulnerability detection and patching.
- Why it matters
- Engineers building autonomous agents, software tools, and developers needing cost-effective models for complex multi-step reasoning should evaluate this release.
- Watch out
- 3.8 Flash uses more tokens on complex tasks for better performance; Cyber variant restricted to trusted defenders via Fairwind Program with limited availability.
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