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Google Launches Gemini 3.8 Flash With Cybersecurity Upgrades
Google has released two new artificial-intelligence models called Gemini 3.8 Flash and Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber.
The regular Flash model is designed to work quickly and cheaply while handling coding and difficult reasoning tasks.
Google says it performs better than the previous Gemini 3.7 Flash.
It is offered at the same introductory price as the older model.
The Cyber version is made to help defenders find software weaknesses and automatically fix them.
Google says it is only available to trusted cybersecurity defenders.
Both models use systems that repeatedly check and improve their work.
Google also says they have protections against harmful cyber activity, dangerous chemical or biological uses, and prompt-injection attacks.
Google introduced Gemini 3.8 Flash and Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, its third Flash release in six weeks.
Gemini 3.8 Flash targets software engineering, agentic tasks and complex, multi-step reasoning.
The model keeps Gemini 3.7 Flash’s introductory pricing of $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens.
Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber is designed for vulnerability detection and automated patching and is limited to trusted defenders through the Gfaiwind programme.
Google says the models include safeguards against cyber offense, CBRN misuse and prompt injection, with more permissive cyber mitigations for Flash Cyber.
- Who
- Google introduced Gemini 3.8 Flash and Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber.
- What
- The company launched new AI models with improved coding, reasoning, cybersecurity and prompt-injection capabilities.
- Where
- The articles do not specify a physical launch location.
- When
- The launch followed Gemini 3.7 Flash by three weeks and marked Google’s third Flash release in six weeks.
- Why
- Google says the models are intended to provide stronger AI performance while retaining fast, low-cost operation and supporting defensive cybersecurity work.
Key facts
- Models
- Gemini 3.8 Flash and Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber
- Main capabilities
- Coding, software engineering, agentic tasks, multi-step reasoning, vulnerability detection and automated patching
- Input price
- $0.75 per million tokens for Gemini 3.8 Flash
- Output price
- $3.75 per million tokens for Gemini 3.8 Flash
- Cyber access
- Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber is available to trusted defenders through the Gfaiwind programme
- Safety measures
- Safeguards address CBRN threats, cyber offense and prompt injection
- Benchmark reference
- Google says Gemini 3.8 Flash outperforms most larger frontier models on SWE-bench
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