Model releases
Google launches Gemini 3.8 Flash and Flash Cyber, targeting autonomous agents
The releases introduce a standard agentic workhorse model and a specialized security variant, coupled with a limited-access Fairwind Program for vetted cyberdefenders.
- Google DeepMind launched Gemini 3.8 Flash and Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber on September 2, 2026, priced at $0.75 per million input and $3.75 per million output tokens, according to VentureBeat and Ars Technica.
- Gemini 3.8 Flash is designed as an agentic workhorse for multi-step reasoning, coding, and specialized domains, featuring a 1-million-token input context and a 64,000-token output limit.
- Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber is a specialized model for autonomous vulnerability discovery and patching that achieved an 86.2% score on the CyberGym benchmark and 47.2% on CWE-Bench.
- Google simultaneously announced the Fairwind Program, a proactive cyber defense initiative backed by a $100 million commitment to provide vetted defenders and critical sectors with automated patching tools.
