SITUATION EXPLAINED: Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber, which beats Sol and Mythos on vulnerability discovery. • Google says 3.8 Flash is its most intelligent model yet, meaning it beats 3 Pro • $0.75 and $3.75 per million tokens, but that's introductory and expires December 31, after which it doubles • It works harder by design, executing extra reasoning steps and calling tools iteratively, so it burns more tokens • Flash Cyber clears 70% on an internal benchmark spanning…

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Two new Gemini models are here to help scale your AI agents and secure code: 🔘 3.8 Flash: our most intelligent model yet with significant gains from 3.7 Flash across software engineering, agentic tasks, and multi-step reasoning. 🔘 3.8 Flash Cyber: our most capable cybersecurity model with frontier-level vulnerability detection and automated patching.