The AI Daily Brief · Wednesday, September 2, 2026
The Wall Street Journal reports that Google is preparing to release Gemini 3.8 Flash, a model designed to significantly improve its weak coding capabilities. Internal testing suggests engineers preferred this model over Anthropic's Opus. Additionally, internal candidates for Gemini Pro 3.5 were scrapped for not being sufficiently superior to Flash models, while Gemini 4 shows promising performance in pre-training.
“The Wall Street Journal reports that Gemini 3.8 Flash is on the way and could fix one of the longest standing problems for Google's AI, which is coding.”
“Now, the model is expected to be released this week, possibly today, so we'll soon see whether it lives up to the hype, but the article also covers what's been happening behind the scenes for the Gemini Pro series.”
“Sources said that all internal candidates to be released as 3.5 Pro were scrapped because they weren't sufficiently better than the Flash models.”