# Google DeepMind — Gemini 3.8 Flash > AI lab announcements, news reports and podcasts. forck.live follows what companies announce about their own products. Press may corroborate an official story; it never leads and never appears as an item of its own. A missing date stays missing. A title is the publisher's words — where a company does not publish in English, an English rendering is listed separately as `Title in English` and named as this site's translation, never as theirs. This file is the record of one model version: what the model registry states about it, Google DeepMind's launch post, the first-party posts this record holds about it, the outlets that reported on those posts, and other companies' announcements that it runs on their platforms. A model ranks nothing here and nothing is composed: each date names whose it is, and a field nothing states is `not stated` rather than missing. - This model's page: https://forck.live/models/gemini-3-8-flash - Google DeepMind's page: https://forck.live/company/google-deepmind - Every model: https://forck.live/models - Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt ## Model - Name: Gemini 3.8 Flash - Company: Google DeepMind (deepmind.google) - Launch post: Introducing Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber — https://forck.live/items/7386-introducing-gemini-3-8-flash-and-3-8-flash-cyber - Announced: 2026-09-02T16:18:31+00:00 - Launch source: https://deepmind.google/blog/introducing-gemini-3-8-flash-and-38-flash-cyber/ - Launch chosen by: a person, pinned in the model registry - Released (per models.dev): 2026-09-02 - Listed (per OpenRouter): 2026-09-02 - Open weights: no - Posts about it: 3 - Outlets named under its posts: 4 - Also written: 3.8 Flash - OpenRouter id: google/gemini-3.8-flash — https://openrouter.ai/google/gemini-3.8-flash - Price: $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens — from https://forck.live/items/7386-introducing-gemini-3-8-flash-and-3-8-flash-cyber ## Posts about it _Google DeepMind's own posts whose title names Gemini 3.8 Flash, and its launch post, in the record's order: dated newest first, undated last. The record reads the newest 50 first-party posts mentioning the model, every company's together, so a model mentioned more often than that lists the newest of them._ Every entry is one first-party announcement, and carries the same eight fields in this order before any others: Company · Announced · Category · Coverage · Announcement · Group · Source · Record `Source` is the company's own page the announcement was traced to and `Record` is this site's page for it. 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Anything after `Record` is held detail that only some announcements carry. ### Google DeepMind — Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS generally available (GA) - Company: Google DeepMind (deepmind.google) - Announced: 2026-09-22 - Category: availability-change - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/changelog#09-22-2026 - Record: https://forck.live/items/23999-gemini-3-8-flash-tts-and-gemini-3-8-flash-lite-tts-generally-available-ga - Subject: Gemini API Google DeepMind is releasing two text-to-speech models and a new API endpoint, bringing studio-grade voice generation to the Gemini API. Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS targets creative use with high voice fidelity, regional dialects, and stability across long multi-turn conversations. Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS replaces the preview model for high-throughput production and real-time voice agent cascades at lower cost. The release also adds voice design, voice replication with consent verification, and a library of over 150 prebuilt and custom voices. ### Google DeepMind — Introducing Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber - Company: Google DeepMind (deepmind.google) - Announced: 2026-09-02T16:18:31+00:00 - Category: new-model - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: models - Source: https://deepmind.google/blog/introducing-gemini-3-8-flash-and-38-flash-cyber/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/7386-introducing-gemini-3-8-flash-and-3-8-flash-cyber - Subject: Gemini Google DeepMind announced Gemini 3.8 Flash, a workhorse model for reasoning and coding at low cost, and Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, a cybersecurity model for vulnerability discovery and automated patching. Both models offer significant improvements over their predecessors. ### Google DeepMind — Gemini 3.8 Flash generally available (GA) - Company: Google DeepMind (deepmind.google) - Announced: 2026-09-02 - Category: availability-change - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/changelog#09-02-2026 - Record: https://forck.live/items/24004-gemini-3-8-flash-generally-available-ga - Subject: Gemini API Google DeepMind has made gemini-3.8-flash generally available, calling it the most intelligent Flash model yet. The company says the model is built for long-horizon software engineering, autonomous agents, and complex enterprise workflows. Developers can get started via the Gemini 3.8 Flash model page and the Gemini 3.8 Flash guide. ## Who reported on it _Outlets this record can name and link, under the first-party post each one covered. Their number is `Outlets named under its posts` above, and the rows are not totalled again. A post's own `Coverage` can be higher: it counts outlets the signal saw that this record cannot name and link._ ### On: Introducing Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber Record: https://forck.live/items/7386-introducing-gemini-3-8-flash-and-3-8-flash-cyber - TestingCatalog — Google releases Gemini 3.8 Flash and Flash Cyber (2026-09-03T09:19:23+00:00): https://www.testingcatalog.com/google-releases-gemini-3-8-flash-and-flash-cyber/ - The Verge — Google says its new Gemini 3.8 Flash model ‘works harder’ but might cost more (2026-09-02T20:11:40+00:00): https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/988742/google-gemini-3-8-flash - Ars Technica — Google releases Gemini 3.8 Flash, its third Flash model in six weeks (2026-09-02T18:13:54+00:00): https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/google-releases-gemini-3-8-flash-its-third-flash-model-in-six-weeks/ - 9to5Google — Gemini 3.8 Flash rolling out three weeks after last release (2026-09-02T15:18:01+00:00): https://9to5google.com/2026/09/02/gemini-3-8-flash-launch/ ## Where it runs _Other companies' own announcements naming Gemini 3.8 Flash and Google DeepMind — each is that company's post, not Google DeepMind's._ ### Perplexity — Gemini 3.8 Flash - Company: Perplexity (perplexity.ai) - Announced: 2026-09-09T17:31:23+00:00 - Category: api-release - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/resources/changelog#september-2026 - Record: https://forck.live/items/9605-gemini-3-8-flash - Subject: Sonar Perplexity added support for the google/gemini-3.8-flash model to its Agent API, with promotional pricing through December 31, 2026. ### GitHub — Gemini 3.8 Flash is now available in GitHub Copilot - Company: GitHub (github.com) - Announced: 2026-09-03T18:50:38+00:00 - Category: availability-change - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-09-03-gemini-3-8-flash-is-now-available-in-github-copilot - Record: https://forck.live/items/8077-gemini-3-8-flash-is-now-available-in-github-copilot - Subject: Copilot GitHub Copilot now includes Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash model, which performed well on complex terminal-based coding tasks in early testing. The model is available to Copilot Pro, Pro+, Max, Business, and Enterprise users at introductory provider pricing through December 31, 2026. ### Google Antigravity — Gemini 3.8 Flash in Google Antigravity - Company: Google Antigravity (antigravity.google) - Announced: 2026-09-01T08:00:00+00:00 - Category: model-update - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: models - Source: https://antigravity.google/blog/gemini-3-8-flash-in-google-antigravity - Record: https://forck.live/items/7362-gemini-3-8-flash-in-google-antigravity - Subject: Antigravity Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash, available immediately in Google Antigravity, priced at $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens, designed for agentic development workflows. --- Record: https://forck.live/models/gemini-3-8-flash Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt Current issue: https://forck.live/feed.md