Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
What changed on 2 September Another Flash, three weeks after the last one. Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash on 2 September 2026. By Artificial Analysis's count it is the company's fourth Flash model in under four months. The index moved three points. Artificial Analysis scores it 59 on its Intelligence Index at high reasoning, up from 56 for Gemini 3.7 Flash at the same setting. Fifty-nine is a frontier-tier number. The same 59 is recorded for GPT-5.6 Sol at xhigh reasoning and for Grok 4.6 at medium reasoning. The gain is agentic. Artificial Analysis attributes it primarily to tau-cubed-Banking (tool use), Terminal-Bench v2.1 (coding) and GDPval-AA v2 (real-world tasks) rather than to the academic components. One published component figure. tau-cubed-Banking comes in at 45%, a twelve-…
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