Google DeepMind launched Gemini 3.8 Flash, its most intelligent workhorse yet, and 3.8 Flash Cyber for defensive cybersecurity. Flash improves software engineering, agentic tasks, and multi-step reasoning over 3.7 Flash, with a native video-plus-coding loop in Antigravity. Flash Cyber leads on autonomous vulnerability detection and patching, producing 2.6× more valid Chrome fixes than top commercial models.

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  • ✓3.8 Flash is a cheaper, effort-controlled workhorse for coding and long multi-step agent workflows
  • ✓3.8 Flash Cyber generates deployable patches in minutes and is prioritized for governments via the Fairwind Program
  • ✓Rolling out now in Antigravity, the Gemini API, Android Studio, Gemini App, and Search AI Mode
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