Suspected Gemini 4 Pro spotted in Arena as gemini-3.8-flash; critics want harder tests
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-09-17
An anonymous model named gemini-3.8-flash appeared on Arena and aced the classic pelican-riding-a-bicycle SVG prompt, fueling speculation it's Google's Gemini 4 Pro testing anonymously. One commenter argued that a frontier-scale (1e27) model should be benchmarked on something harder than meme prompts.
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