Google DeepMind releases Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber

Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber released — company claims: 54.9% on HLE-Verified, 47.2% patch pass@1 on CWE-Bench, a success rate above 70% in internal evaluations across 20 languages, and 2.6 times as many correct patches as competing models in an evaluation by the Chrome security team. Pricing is $0.75 per 1M input tokens and $3.75 for output, an introductory price through Dec 31, 2026. Available in AI Studio, Android Studio, the Gemini API, Gemini Enterprise, the Gemini app and Search

Why it matters

Security-specific derivative models are split off as official variants of the frontier lineup — vulnerability detection and patching become an independent axis of the model family

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Officialblog.googlehttps://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/3-8-flash-and-3-8-flash-cyber/

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