Google Ships Gemini 3.8 Flash: 1M Context, Claims Terminal Bench Wins Over Rival Flagships
kimmonismus · x · 2026-09-02
Google has released Gemini 3.8 Flash, its most capable Flash model aimed at long-horizon software engineering, autonomous agents, and enterprise workflows.
- Context: 1,048,576-token input, 65,536-token output
- Capabilities: text/image/video/audio/PDF input; Thinking (low/medium/high, minimal unsupported); code execution; Computer use (Preview); Search and Google Maps grounding; structured outputs, caching, file search; Batch/Flex/Priority inference; no audio/image generation or Live API
- Benchmarks: poster kimmonismus claims Flash beats competing flagships on Terminal Bench 2.1, HLE and more (third-party reading, not item-by-item verified by Google)
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