Unverified: Early Testers Praise 'Gemini 3.8' as a Well-Rounded Agentic Model
johnowhitaker · x · 2026-09-03
An unverified post claims Google's 'Gemini 3.8' is now being tested, describing it as a well-rounded agentic model that performs well across domains (finance, legal) and modalities, with impressive progress in recent months. The thread also nudges osanseviero to fix Colab's default, which still ships Gemini 2.5 Flash instead of the newer Flash 3. Model version not officially confirmed.
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