Google releases Gemini 3.8 Flash and a restricted Flash Cyber version for finding vulnerabilities
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A cheap, fast model is nearly catching up with expensive flagships, so powerful SI is becoming a mass-market tool, and a separate "cyber version" gives defenders a weapon against the very attacks SI has learned to carry out.
This is the third Flash release in three months and comes just three weeks after 3.7 Flash. The model scores 54.9% on HLE-Verified and, according to Google, beats larger frontier models on DeepSWE v1.1 (long programming tasks), while the price until December 31 stays at $0.75/$3.75 per million input/output tokens. A separate version, 3.8 Flash Cyber, is issued only to vetted defenders through the Fairwind program: it finds vulnerabilities in more than 70% of cases across 20 programming languages, and the Chrome security team got 2.6 times more correct patches with it than with the best commercial models.
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