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Google says its new Gemini 3.8 Flash model ‘works harder’ but might cost more

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Google says its new Gemini 3.8 Flash model ‘works harder' but might cost more.

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Google launched Gemini 3.8 Flash, arriving just a few weeks after its predecessor.

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The company claims the new model "works harder" than Gemini 3.7 Flash by performing more reasoning steps on complex tasks and "calling tools iteratively." It has the same introductory pricing as 3.7 Flash, $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million […]

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