Google releases Gemini 3.8 Flash and restricted 3.8 Flash Cyber

Google released a generally available Flash model for long-horizon agentic work alongside a limited-access cybersecurity variant.

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Google says Gemini 3.8 Flash improves reasoning, coding and agentic tasks over 3.7 while keeping its introductory API price at $0.75 per million input tokens and$ 3.75 per million output tokens. Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber is offered through Fairwind to trusted defenders, with Google reporting strong vulnerability discovery and automated patching performance.

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A low-cost model moving towards frontier agent performance changes the economics of high-volume agents, while the Cyber variant shows providers are shipping dual-use capability with access controls. The benchmarks and security results remain vendor-reported.

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