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Side-by-side evaluations using an internal tool called Jetski showed a preference among Google engineers for the latest Flash model over Anthropic's Opus. The upcoming Gemini 3.8 Flash, code-named 'Skimaki,' arrives as soon as Wednesday and focuses on coding performance, offering a smaller, cheaper, and faster alternative to flagship Pro series models.
Google scrapped several internal Gemini 3.5 Pro candidates that failed to provide sufficient improvements over the Flash architecture. The next flagship model, Gemini 4, is performing well in pretraining evaluations but must still complete the post-training phase of development.
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- SOURCE@erinkwoo“Google ramping up its work on RL”x.com
- SUPPORT@wallstengine“Flash is designed to be smaller, cheaper and faster than Google’s flagship Pro models”x.com
- SUPPORT@wallstengine“scrapped internal Gemini 3.5 Pro candidates after they failed to improve enough over Flash”x.com
- SUPPORT@techmeme“Gemini 4 has done well on pre-training evals but still needs to complete post-training”x.com
- SUPPORT@tradfi“PREFERRED GEMINI 3.8 FLASH OVER CLAUDE OPUS IN TESTS WITHIN GOOGLE'S INTERNAL CODING TOOL”x.com
- SOURCE@maxforai“Gemini 3.8 Flash已经对部分用户推出”x.com
- SUPPORT@koltregaskes“stealth launched on Gemini web”x.com
- SUPPORT@cointelegraph“coding ability now rivals top competitors”x.com