Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
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Google announces Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber, the third Flash release in six weeks.
Gemini 3.8 Flash delivers significant gains in software engineering, agentic tasks, and multi-step reasoning, outperforming larger frontier models on benchmarks like DeepSWE v1.1 at a fraction of the cost. Priced at $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens. Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, available via the Fairwind Program, achieves frontier-level performance in autonomous vulnerability discovery and automated patching. On CWE-Bench it reaches a pass@1 of 47.2% near a leading frontier model at 47.8% but at significantly lower cost. Google's Chrome Security team found 3.8 Flash Cyber produced 2.6 times more correct patches to vulnerabilities than larger commercial models.
What commenters are saying
Multiple commenters note the blog post initially returned a 404 error, with some speculating it was taken down to prepare for a 3.9 Flash release. Others confirm the model is currently usable via the Gemini chat website. A split emerges: some argue Google has given up on frontier models for external consumption, while others counter that a Flash model benchmarking close to Opus and Sol proves otherwise. Several users praise 3.7 Flash's speed and value, calling 3.8 a no-compromise upgrade. Skeptics suspect benchmaxxing on DeepSWE, noting every new release now "crushes it." A user provides an archived copy of the blog post.