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Bar chart of Gemini 3.8 Flash key benchmarks including 54.9 percent HLE-Verified, 47.2 percent CWE-Bench pass at 1, and over 70 percent internal vulnerability discovery rate, with Chrome patches at 2.6 times the nearest competitor. Gemini 3.8 Flash explained for beginners.

Gemini 3.8 Flash explained: what beginners should know

Gemini 3.8 Flash is Google's newest mid-tier AI model, released September 2, 2026, with better reasoning and coding than 3.7 Flash at the same introductory price. A security variant called Flash Cyber is gated to vetted defenders.

Lars Cornelissen · Sep 3, 2026

Bar chart of output features by maximum video length in seconds: 720p standard at 10, 360p draft at 10, scene extension to 40, 4K upscale to 10. Shows the jump from single-clip generation to 40-second scene extension.

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Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash: AI video editing for beginners

Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash is a Google DeepMind model for generating and editing video by conversation. You can extend clips to 40 seconds, control camera moves with keyframes, preview cheaply in 360p, and upscale to 4K.

Lars Cornelissen · Aug 27, 2026

Gemini 3.7 Flash coding benchmark scores showing FrontierCode 1.1 Main at 43.6 percent versus 34.4 percent for Gemini 3.6 Flash, with Claude Sonnet 5 at 42.7 and GPT-5.6 Terra at 41.3

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Gemini 3.7 Flash explained: what beginners should know

Gemini 3.7 Flash is Google's new fast AI model for coding and agents. It scores 43.6 percent on FrontierCode, up from 34.4, at half the old price.

Lars Cornelissen · Aug 15, 2026

Slope chart comparing Gemini 3.6 Flash to 3.7 Flash across four benchmarks. FrontierCode 1.1 Main rises from 34.4% to 43.6%, DeepSWE v1.1 from 49.0% to 65.3%, AutomationBench from 17.0% to 30.4%, and Terminal-bench 2.1 from 78.0% to 85.8%.

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Gemini 3.7 Flash lifts coding scores at half the price

Gemini 3.7 Flash is Google's coding and agent workhorse. It beats 3.6 Flash across every benchmark Google published and undercuts Claude Sonnet 5 on output token price by roughly two-thirds, at $0.75 per million input tokens.

Lars Cornelissen · Aug 14, 2026

Siri AI model tests show AFM 3 Cloud at 64.7 percent preference versus 8.7 percent for the 2025 server baseline, and AFM 3 Core at 45.6 percent versus 23.3 percent.

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Siri AI makes Apple’s platform bet depend on Google

Siri AI is Apple’s rebuilt assistant, but its strongest model jump is Gemini-built: AFM 3 Cloud won 64.7 percent of text tests.

Lars Cornelissen · Jun 10, 2026