18 August 2026

Google releases faster Gemini 3.8 Flash, warns it may cost more to run

First reported

AI Breakfast ran this on 1 September, a day before the other 2 sources picked it up.

Gemini 3.8 Flash launched three weeks after its predecessor with improved coding ability, scoring 73.7 percent on software engineering benchmarks versus 65.3 percent for the older model.
Google charges the same per-token price as before but warns users the model consumes more tokens to achieve better performance, raising actual costs by roughly 40 percent per task.

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