Google Launches Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
Google published a post on its own blog titled "Introducing Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber", dated September 2, 2026, by Tulsee Doshi, Senior Director of Product Management, and Raluca Ada Popa, Gemini Security Lead at Google DeepMind. Everything below comes from it.
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Google launched Gemini three point eight Flash today. A cybersecurity variant ships too.
Pricing is unchanged from three point seven Flash. Seventy five cents per million input tokens. Three dollars and seventy five cents per million output tokens.
Google says Flash is built for long horizon coding and autonomous agents. Its own benchmarks show gains in software engineering and multi-step reasoning.
Flash Cyber handles vulnerability detection and automated patching. It is not generally available. Only trusted defenders get access through the new Fairwind Program.
Google's Chrome Security team reports two point six times more correct patches than larger commercial models. All of these numbers come from Google.
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- Gemini 3.8 introduces 2 variants:(Google's official announcement, Introducing Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber, published September 2, 2026)
- It is available at the same introductory price as 3.7 Flash at $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens.(Google's official announcement, Introducing Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber, published September 2, 2026)
- Gemini 3.8 Flash: built for long-horizon coding and autonomous agents(Google's official announcement, Introducing Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber, published September 2, 2026)
- Gemini 3.8 Flash: our most intelligent workhorse model, delivering significant improvements from 3.7 Flash across software engineering, agentic tasks, and critical, multi-step reasoning in specialized domains.(Google's official announcement, Introducing Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber, published September 2, 2026)
- Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber: our most capable cybersecurity model with frontier-level performance in vulnerability detection and automated patching, available to trusted defenders through our new Fairwind Program.(Google's official announcement, Introducing Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber, published September 2, 2026)
- Through our new Fairwind Program, we're providing trusted government authorities, as well as critical infrastructure operators and software maintainers with prioritized access to Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber.(Google's official announcement, Introducing Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber, published September 2, 2026)
- The Chrome Security team found that 3.8 Flash Cyber produced 2.6 times more correct patches to vulnerabilities in Chrome than the best commercial models that are much larger.(Google's official announcement, Introducing Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber, published September 2, 2026)