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Google Unveils Gemini 3.8 Flash AI and Cybersecurity Models

Google launches Gemini 3.8 Flash and Flash Cyber models for coding and security tasks.

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Google unveiled Gemini 3.8 Flash and Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber on September 2, 2026, marking the fourth Flash model launch in under four months. [1] Google announced two variants of the Gemini 3.8 Flash model on Wednesday: a standard version for agentic tasks and software development, and a specialized version called Flash Cyber for vulnerability detection. [2] Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber is available exclusively through Google's Fairwind Program and targets the cybersecurity sector with tools for vulnerability detection and automated patching. [3] Gemini 3.8 Flash supports text, image, video, audio, and PDF inputs with a 1,048,576-token input limit and a 65,536-token output limit. [4] The standard Gemini 3.8 Flash is priced at $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens. [5] Gemini 3.8 Flash outperformed many large frontier models on the DeepSWE coding benchmark at a far lower cost than previous versions. [6] Google CEO Sundar Pichai stated that Gemini 3.8 Flash delivers significant leaps from version 3.7 across software engineering, agentic tasks, and multi-step reasoning. [7] The Flash Cyber model achieved 86.2% on the CyberGym cybersecurity benchmark and 47.2% on the CWE-Bench, which evaluates AI patching abilities. [8]
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  1. Google unveiled Gemini 3.8 Flash and Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber on September 2, 2026, marking the fourth Flash model launch in under four months. · Blockchain.News
  2. Google announced two variants of the Gemini 3.8 Flash model on Wednesday: a standard version for agentic tasks and software development, and a specialized version called Flash Cyber for vulnerability detection. · venturebeat.com
  3. Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber is available exclusively through Google's Fairwind Program and targets the cybersecurity sector with tools for vulnerability detection and automated patching. · Blockchain.News
  4. Gemini 3.8 Flash supports text, image, video, audio, and PDF inputs with a 1,048,576-token input limit and a 65,536-token output limit. · Blockchain.News
  5. The standard Gemini 3.8 Flash is priced at $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens. · Blockchain.News
  6. Gemini 3.8 Flash outperformed many large frontier models on the DeepSWE coding benchmark at a far lower cost than previous versions. · venturebeat.com
  7. Google CEO Sundar Pichai stated that Gemini 3.8 Flash delivers significant leaps from version 3.7 across software engineering, agentic tasks, and multi-step reasoning. · venturebeat.com
  8. The Flash Cyber model achieved 86.2% on the CyberGym cybersecurity benchmark and 47.2% on the CWE-Bench, which evaluates AI patching abilities. · venturebeat.com
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