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Gemini 3.8 Flash, known internally as "Skimaki," is expected to release Wednesday, according to the Wall Street Journal
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Google $GOOGL's AI research unit plans to ship a new model boasting sharply improved coding abilities as soon as Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal reported. The model, Gemini 3.8 Flash, is referred to internally as "Skimaki" and is designed to close ground on rivals Anthropic and OpenAI in an area where Google has lagged.
Engineers at Google have tested Skimaki against Anthropic's Opus model using Jetski, Google's internal coding tool, and have preferred the new model, according to the Journal. The release comes after Google has devoted more resources to reinforcement learning — a later stage of model training that teaches models to perform skills through trial and error — since the start of the year.
