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Gemini 3.8 Flash targets coding and agentic tasks, while the Cyber variant focuses on vulnerability detection and patching
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Google $GOOGL introduced two AI models on Wednesday: Gemini 3.8 Flash, a general-purpose model aimed at software engineering and autonomous tasks, and Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, a variant built for cybersecurity work. Google noted that the launch comes three weeks after Gemini 3.7 Flash and represents the third Flash-generation release this quarter.
Gemini 3.8 Flash is priced at $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens — the same introductory rate as its predecessor — and is available to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers through the Gemini app, in AI Mode in Google Search, in Gemini in Google Sheets, and to developers via the Gemini API and AI Studio, the company said. On the DeepSWE v1.1 long-horizon software engineering benchmark, the model outperforms most larger frontier models while costing less, according to Google. It also achieves a 54.9% score on HLE-Verified, a benchmark spanning reasoning across STEM, humanities, and professional fields.
