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Published September 2, Flash is priced at $0.75/$3.75 per million through December 31, doubling to $1.50/$7.50 on January 1. Flash Cyber isn't purchasable: access runs through the Fairwind Program for approved government authorities, critical infrastructure operators and software maintainers. Google reports the Chrome Security team saw 2.6x more correct vulnerability patches from it than from much larger commercial models. A capability granted by application and sold to nobody is the opposite of every other model launch this year (Google).
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Fairwind, announced September 2, gives governments, national cyber authorities, critical infrastructure operators and core technology platforms access to Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber and the CodeMender harness for finding, verifying and fixing vulnerabilities. Google names more than...
Google shipped it August 13: FrontierCode 1.1 at 43.6% (from 34.4%), DeepSWE v1.1 at 65.3% (from 49.0%), WebDev Arena Elo 1588 (from 1538), AutomationBench enterprise workflow completion at 30.4% (from 17.0%). Introductory pricing is $0.75/M input and $3.75/M output through De...
Gemini 3.6 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, the last purpose-built to find and patch vulnerabilities and pitched as a cheap alternative to large security-specialized models like Mythos (DeepMind). Splitting a cheap tier into a security SKU is new packa...
Google launched agentic video understanding across Gemini 3.7 Flash, 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite (Google). Instead of scanning a video start to finish at a fixed sample rate, the model runs an internal loop deciding what to watch, at what speed, and through which channel: fra...
The changelog offers Z.ai's open-weights coding model with a 1M-token context free via Blackbox AI on AI Gateway, default for new eve agents, switchable for existing ones with eve set --model zai/glm-5.2. Excludes Fast mode and the glm-5.2-fast variant. Separately, Gemini 3.7...
Google DeepMind shipped computer use as a built-in tool inside Gemini 3.5 Flash on June 24, collapsing the standalone Oct-2025 computer-use model into the same model you already use for function calling, Search grounding, and Maps. One agent sees a screen, clicks, types, and l...
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