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Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/3-8-flash-and-3-8-flash-cyber/
67•simonsarris•1h ago

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ChrisArchitect•58m ago
Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49537553
sergiotapia•34m ago
Who coined the phrase "cyber" for security related things lol. It's so 1999.
estearum•27m ago
Hasn't the field been called "cybersecurity" since... forever?
atemerev•19m ago
A/S/L?
cleverpotato479•19m ago
Amusingly, "cyber" comes from the word "kubernetes"!
kamranjon•23m ago
They've interestingly left out any mention of speed.

I have been testing 3.7 flash against 3.5 flash and it seems to lose every time in overall latency. Every benchmark I've seen seems to suggest the opposite[1] - that 3.7 flash is significantly (at times 2x) faster than 3.5 flash - but I have never been able to prove this out in real world use cases.

Has anyone found their latency numbers to actually be accurate? Is this why they've toned it down in this release? For context, I'm testing larger generation payloads that take 8-10 seconds in 3.5 flash and 15-25 seconds in 3.7 flash. Lowest reasoning settings in both cases.

1: https://artificialanalysis.ai/?speed=intelligence-vs-speed&m...

film42•16m ago
It depends on how you're querying Gemini models. OpenRouter is the fastest by far. I'm guessing they bought the dedicated pipe from Google. Gemini via VertexAI and consumer API has pretty bad latency.
kamranjon•14m ago
Yea I am testing through OpenRouter - have you noticed 3.7 flash being significantly faster?
atemerev•20m ago
Everyone is censoring models now with anything remotely resembling cyber or bio. I already have problems with my research in mathematical epidemiology because of that - both Sol and Fable simply refuse. They keep pushing people towards Chinese models that can be decensored.
vehemenz•9m ago
Supposedly Fable 5.1 is better, but I haven't tried it yet. I've run into the same thing with mundane work that is barely bio/cyber adjacent.

Re: Chinese models, even if the model itself isn't censored, some of the big model providers have guardrails now that you can't exceed, which somewhat defeats the purpose.

TechRemarker•12m ago
Hopefully before they release 4.0 Flash we will finally get Gemini 3.5 Pro.
re-thc•10m ago
> 4.0 Flash we will finally get Gemini 3.5 Pro

Nah, we'll just get the 4.0 Pro Preview.

simonsarris•5m ago
more likely 4 pro will be released pretty soon instead, since pre-training for 4 began in late July

https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/2079594867161022817

Gemini 3.8 Flash

https://deepmind.google/models/model-cards/gemini-3-8-flash/
316•bratao•1h ago•196 comments

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Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/3-8-flash-and-3-8-flash-c...
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