“Google’s Gemini 3.8 Flash is built for agents, while its Cyber twin hunts vulnerabilities”

Key points

• Google unveils two versions of 3.8 Flash: standard for agents and Flash Cyber for vulnerability detection.
• 3.8 Flash delivers significant leaps in software engineering, agentic tasks, and multi-step reasoning.
• Flash Cyber is described as Google's most capable cybersecurity model with high patching ability.
• Benchmarks: Flash Cyber scores 86.2% on CyberGym and 47.2% on CWE-Bench; internal test >70% vulnerability discovery across 20 languages.
• Pricing and access: $0.75 per million input tokens, $3.75 per million output tokens; limited rollout for Cyber to trusted defenders.