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Google confirms its new Gemini 3.8 Flash model ‘works harder’ but might cost more
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Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber is also launching to Google’s new Fairwind Program.
Key facts
- This is up ~40% from Gemini 3.7 Flash despite unchanged per-token pricing, driven by a 30% increase in output tokens per task and more turns on agentic evaluations
- Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber is also launching to Google’s new Fairwind Program
- Google says Gemini 3.8 Flash offers “significant improvements” for software engineering and autonomous AI agents
- Google launched Gemini 3.8 Flash, arriving a few weeks after its predecessor
Summary
Google launched Gemini 3.8 Flash, arriving a few weeks after its predecessor. Gemini 3.8 Flash’s launch was followed by some early impressions online. Aigora.ai CEO John Ennis compared Gemini 3.8 Flash to Anthropic’s models, saying it offers “Opus 5 coding quality but at a fraction of the cost and super fast,” adding, “This is going to be so awesome for things like making remotion videos.” Google says Gemini 3.8 Flash offers “significant improvements” for software engineering and autonomous AI agents.