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Google lists Gemini 3.8 Flash in Agent Studio for coding and agentic tasks

September 2, 2026 at 10:49 EDT

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Google has begun listing Gemini 3.8 Flash in Agent Studio on Google Cloud, pitching the model for agentic coding and multimodal data work on the same day reports said a release was expected.

September 2, 2026 · Google Cloud

Gemini 3.8 Flash lands in Agent Studio

Google has listed the next Flash model in Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, pitching it for agentic coding before publishing a model card or public scores.

Last published Flash coding scores

DeepSWE v1.1, Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Gemini 3.7 Flash. Google has not released 3.8 Flash results.

49.0%

3.6 Flash

July 21

65.3%

3.7 Flash

August 13

3.7 Flash lifted long-horizon coding from 49.0% to 65.3% in three weeks. 3.8 Flash public evals are still outstanding.

~3 wks

Gap from 3.6 to 3.7 Flash

~20 days

3.7 launch to 3.8 listing

$0.75

3.7 Flash intro / 1M input

How the model is surfacing

1. Internal tests

Jetski dogfood vs live coding tasks

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2. Agent Studio

Listed as New on Google Cloud

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3. Broader surfaces

Antigravity, Model Garden, some Gemini chats

What teams like

Console copy aims 3.8 Flash at multimodal data, coding problems, and software-engineering agents on a roughly three-week Flash cadence.

What is still missing

No model card or public scores. Some Antigravity sessions error out. Docs still feature Gemini 3.7 Flash.

Internal read

Coding-first Flash, not a new Pro

Internal testers reportedly preferred Gemini 3.8 Flash to Anthropic Opus on Jetski. Google has not confirmed that comparison or published 3.8 Flash evals.

Codename

Skimaki

3.5 Pro

Internal candidates dropped

Gemini 4

Pretraining done; posttraining pending

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