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Google’s Gemini 3.8 Flash is built for agents, while its Cyber twin hunts vulnerabilities

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Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash and a specialized Flash Cyber variant, the latter limited to governments and trusted testers for vulnerability remediation. Both models accept text, image, audio and video inputs, support a 1 million-token context window and generate up to 64 k tokens, with pricing of $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens through the end of the year.

Written from all 4 reports below, not from any single one.

How it was reported

  1. TechMeme·
    Sources: Google plans to release Gemini 3.8 Flash as soon as Wednesday; Gemini 4 has done well on pre-training evals but still needs to complete post-training (Erin Woo/Wall Street Journal)

    Google will debut Gemini 3.8 Flash as early as Wednesday; Gemini 4 has posted strong pre-training scores but awaits post-training. Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 for trusted partners, adding Enterprise Frontier Safeguards. OpenAI will soon roll out its Astra model with advanced cyber capabilities limited to select partners. Dell posted Q2 revenue of $46.97 billion, a 58% year-over-year increase, and forecasts FY 2027 revenue of $192 billion.

  2. Hacker News·
    Gemini 3.8 Flash

    Gemini 3.8 Flash, the latest iteration of the Gemini 3 series, expands input support to text, images, audio, and video with a 1 million-token context window and produces up to 64 k tokens of text, while offering customizable effort levels for quality, cost, and latency. It is evaluated on coding, knowledge work, multimodal, long-context, computer-use, and scientific-reasoning benchmarks, and is marketed for cost-effective, production-ready agents in software engineering and complex knowledge workflows, though it can still hallucinate, experience occasional slowness, and has a knowledge cutoff of March 2026.

  3. TechMeme·
    Google launches Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber for partners in its new Fairwind Program, and says Gemini 3.8 Flash beats Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol on some benchmarks (Google)

    Google launched Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber for Fairwind partners, priced at $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens through Dec 31, and reports it surpasses Claude Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol on multiple benchmarks. Meta introduced Muse Spark 1.3 (max) in limited preview, noting a large increase in coding and agentic performance and a 62 score on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, behind only Claude Fable 5.1 and Opus 5.

  4. The Next Web·
    Google releases Gemini 3.8 Flash and a cybersecurity variant limited to governments

    Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash and a specialized Flash Cyber variant, the latter restricted to governments and trusted testers for vulnerability remediation. These releases trigger EU AI Act compliance requirements, including mandatory technical documentation and training data disclosures. Introductory pricing of $0.75 per million input tokens remains active until the end of the year.

  5. VentureBeat·
    Google’s Gemini 3.8 Flash is built for agents, while its Cyber twin hunts vulnerabilities

    Google unveiled Gemini 3.8 Flash in two variants: a standard “workhorse” model for agentic tasks, software development, and multi-step reasoning, and Flash Cyber optimized for vulnerability detection, achieving 86.2% on CyberGym and 47.2% on CWE-Bench. The models support a 1 M-token input window, multimodal inputs, and are priced at $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens.

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