Gemini 3.8 Flash Accused of Benchmark Overfitting, Regressing vs 3.7 in Independent Tests
bindureddy · x · 2026-09-03
Bindu Reddy claims Gemini 3.8 Flash is overfit to public benchmarks: it scores worse than 3.7 Flash on their hidden-question benchmark and regresses on data analysis. Her take: Google should stop the incremental Flash releases and ship Gemini 4.0. Third-party evaluation, not confirmed by Google.
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