Google introduced Gemini 3.8 Flash and Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, targeting software engineering, agentic tasks, and multi-step reasoning on one side and frontier-level vulnerability detection and automated patching on the other. Google says Gemini 3.8 Flash scores 54.9% on HLE-Verified and beats most larger frontier models on long-horizon software engineering benchmarks such as DeepSWE v1.1; 3.8 Flash Cyber exceeds a 70% success rate on an internal real-world vulnerability discovery benchmark covering 20 programming languages and reaches pass@1 of 47.2% on CWE-Bench. Gemini 3.8 Flash is priced at $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens, a promotional rate through December 31, 2026, rising to $1.50 and $7.50 on January 1, 2027. Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber is limited to trusted defenders such as government agencies, critical infrastructure operators, and software maintainers through the new Fairwind Program.

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