Google ships Gemini 3.8 Flash, Cyber security model, Lyria 3.5 music model in weekly recap
GoogleAI · x · 2026-09-05
Google AI's weekly shipping recap:
- Gemini 3.8 Flash: its smartest workhorse model yet, with upgrades in coding, agentic workflows, and multi-step reasoning.
- Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber: frontier-level vulnerability detection and automated patching.
- Lyria 3.5: new music generation model, live via the Gemini API and across AI Studio, Gemini App, Flow, and Google Vids.
- WeatherNext 3: DeepMind/Google Research's most accurate global weather AI model.
- Agentic Video Understanding: new Gemini API video analysis feature with better accuracy at far lower token cost.
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