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Previous Publications

Sep 2, 2026•4 min read

Google Launches Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber: Frontier-Level Coding at 3.7 Prices, a Cyber Model Behind the Fairwind Gate

Google ships Gemini 3.8 Flash — its third Flash release in six weeks — with major gains in software engineering, agentic tasks, and multi-step reasoning at 3.7's introductory price ($0.75/$3.75 per 1M tokens). Alongside it: Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber for vulnerability discovery and automated patching, available only to trusted defenders through the new Fairwind Program.

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Vision & Multimodal LLMs

Sep 2, 2026•4 min read

Gemini Gets Agentic Video Understanding: The Model Now Watches Only What It Needs — 88% Fewer Tokens

Google shipped agentic video understanding for Gemini 3.7 Flash, 3.6 Flash, and 3.5 Flash-Lite. Instead of sampling video at a fixed 1 FPS, the model navigates the timeline itself — pulling up to 88% fewer tokens, cutting costs up to 66%, and adding sub-second moment retrieval.

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Vision & Multimodal LLMs

Aug 28, 2026•4 min read

Gemini 3.5 Transcribe & Transcribe Live: Google Replaces Chirp with Dual Speech Models and Smart Normalization

Google has released Gemini 3.5 Transcribe and Transcribe Live in the Gemini API, bringing 2.6% batch WER, full-duplex WebSocket streaming, speaker diarization up to three voices, and a built-in semantic engine that strips disfluencies and resolves self-corrections on the fly.

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Vision & Multimodal LLMs

Aug 28, 2026•5 min read

Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash Is GA: Video Extension, Frame Interpolation, and 4K Output Come to the Gemini API

Google moved its conversational video model from preview to general availability on August 27, adding clip extension, first/last-frame interpolation, and a resolution parameter — and put the preview endpoint on a September 30 deprecation clock.

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Vision & Multimodal LLMs

Aug 27, 2026•3 min read

DeepSeek Adds Vision to Its Budget Workhorse: V4-Flash-Vision-Exp Is Live in Experimental Preview

DeepSeek's first vision-capable Flash model charges up to 384 tokens per image at V4-Flash text pricing, with a free Files API for image reuse. Here's how to use it on day one.

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