Google announces Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber AI models

3.8 Flash Cyber has a “more permissive set of mitigations” that is more in line with the needs of cyber defence professionals [File] | Photo Credit: REUTERS Google announced the launch of its new AI model, Gemini 3.8, with two variants consisting of Gemini 3.8 Flash and Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber.Touting the company’s “most intelligent workhorse model,” Google said that Gemini 3.8 Flash would improve in areas such as software engineering, agentic tasks, and critical multi-step reasoning in specialised domains.It will temporarily be available at the same introductory price as 3.7 Flash, which was $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens.Meanwhile, Google described Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber as its “most capable cybersecurity model with frontier-level performance in vulnerability detection and automated patching,” noting that it was available for trusted defenders taking part in its programme.On the safety front, Google said that 3.8 Flash included safeguards to prevent misuse through chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and cyber offences.3.8 Flash Cyber has a “more permissive set of mitigations” that is more in line with the needs of cyber defence professionals.“While tailored for different deployment environments, both of today’s releases are powered by the same foundational intelligence, and further accelerated by long-running agentic loops designed to recursively evaluate and refine the underlying models. The significant coding and reasoning gains across this shared core were driven by a number of innovations, including rigorous training in the highly demanding domain of cybersecurity,” said Google in a blog. Published - September 03, 2026 02:42 pm IST