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Google is launching its most capable AI coding model yet, plus a cybersecurity sibling
Gemini 3.8 Flash targets coding and agentic tasks, while the Cyber variant focuses on vulnerability detection and patching
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Google $GOOGL introduced two AI models on Wednesday: Gemini 3.8 Flash, a general-purpose model aimed at software engineering and autonomous tasks, and Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, a variant built for cybersecurity work. Google noted that the launch comes three weeks after Gemini 3.7 Flash and represents the third Flash-generation release this quarter.
Gemini 3.8 Flash is priced at $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens — the same introductory rate as its predecessor — and is available to Google AI Pro and Ultra........