Google Releases Gemini 3.8 Flash and Cyber, Performance Gains but Critics Say It's 'Grinding' for Scores

Google has officially released Gemini 3.8 Flash and its cybersecurity-focused Cyber variant, with significant performance improvements at the same price, narrowly beating DeepSeek-V4-Pro on LMArena. However, analysis suggests the intelligence gains are limited, relying on increased reasoning steps and tool calls, and the Cyber model is not publicly available.

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