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.