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Google launches Gemini 3.8 Flash, its third Flash model in six weeks
🧒 Discovery
It's as if Google's speedy little robot spent the summer practicing hard and came back to school even quicker and smarter than before!
📰 Essential
Google introduced Gemini 3.8 Flash, a faster model that makes clear gains in coding and multi-step reasoning compared to version 3.7. A 'Cyber' variant focused on finding security vulnerabilities is also opening to trusted testers.
🔬 Expert
The third Flash version in six weeks, this model leans on an explicit cost-versus-compute tradeoff per task rather than a new architecture. It's already live in the Gemini app for AI Pro and Ultra subscribers, in Sheets, and for developers via Antigravity, AI Studio and the API. The Cyber variant, limited to the new Fairwind Program, targets autonomous vulnerability discovery.