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Google releases Gemini 3.8 Flash, its third Flash model in six weeks

Ars Technica • Wed, 02 Sep 2026

Google's Pro model updates are seemingly paused, but there's yet another Gemini Flash today.

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Google's Pro model updates are seemingly paused, but there's yet another Gemini Flash today.

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Google's Pro model updates are seemingly paused, but there's yet another Gemini Flash today.

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Google launched Gemini 3.8 Flash, arriving just a few weeks after its predecessor. The company claims the new model "works harder" than Gemini 3.7 Flash by performing more reasoning steps on complex tasks and "calling tools iteratively." It has the same introductory pricing as 3.7 Flash, $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million […]