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Google releases Gemini 3.8 Flash and a cyber model for vetted defenders

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Source: Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber

Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash at $0.75 and $3.75 per million input and output tokens, its third Flash release in six weeks, and Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, a vulnerability-detection and patching model available only to trusted defenders through its new Fairwind Program. Google said both share a core trained partly through long-running agentic loops that evaluate and refine the models.

Why it matters

Google opened gated cyber-defence access to a specialised model, the route it later used for Gemini 4 Argon.

When
2 Sep 2026
ID
WTA-N-2026-0183
Who
Google, Google DeepMind

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from Google. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

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Source copy: download the page as saved on 18 Oct 2026 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.

Next stop on this Storyline: Led toGoogle DeepMind announces Gemini 4 Argon, first released only to vetted cyber defenders

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WTA-N-2026-0183: “Google releases Gemini 3.8 Flash and a cyber model for vetted defenders.” wheresthe.ai, 2 Sep 2026. https://wheresthe.ai/d/google-gemini-3-8-flash-cyber-2026-09/ (source: Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber).

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