Wall St Engine(@wallstengine):GOOGLE SET TO RELEASE GEMINI 3.8 FLASH THIS WEEK: WSJ Google $GOOGL is expected to release Gemini 3.8 Flash, internally called “Skimaki,” as soon as Wednesday, with a major focus on coding. In internal head-to-head tests inside Google’s coding tool Jetski, engineers reportedly preferred 3.8 Flash over Anthropic’s Opus model. Flash is designed to be smaller, cheaper and faster than Google’s flagship Pro models. Google has also scrapped internal Gemini 3.5 Pro candidates that weren’t sufficiently better than Flash, while Gemini 4 has performed well in pretraining evaluations but still needs to complete posttraining.

2026.09.01 21:09

GOOGLE SET TO RELEASE GEMINI 3.8 FLASH THIS WEEK: WSJ Google $GOOGL is expected to release Gemini 3.8 Flash, internally called “Skimaki,” as soon as Wednesday, with a major focus on coding. In internal head-to-head tests inside Google’s coding tool Jetski, engineers reportedly preferred 3.8 Flash over Anthropic’s Opus model. Flash is designed to be smaller, cheaper and faster than Google’s flagship Pro models. Google has also scrapped internal Gemini 3.5 Pro candidates that weren’t sufficiently better than Flash, while Gemini 4 has performed well in pretraining evaluations but still needs to complete posttraining.