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title: "Sources: Google plans to release Gemini 3.8 Flash as soon as Wednesday; Gemini 4 has done well on pre-training evals but still needs to complete post-training (Erin Woo/Wall Street Journal)"
type: signal
url: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/sources-google-plans-to-release-gemini-3-8-flash-as-soon-as-wednesday-92c821a0
published: 2026-09-01T21:40:02.000Z
byline: "Source: TECHMEME"
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# Sources: Google plans to release Gemini 3.8 Flash as soon as Wednesday; Gemini 4 has done well on pre-training evals but still needs to complete post-training (Erin Woo/Wall Street Journal)

Source: TECHMEME · Published 2026-09-01 · Canonical: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/sources-google-plans-to-release-gemini-3-8-flash-as-soon-as-wednesday-92c821a0

Erin Woo / Wall Street Journal : Sources: Google plans to release Gemini 3.8 Flash as soon as Wednesday; Gemini 4 has done well on pre-training evals but still needs to complete post-training — Internal tests of Gemini 3.8 Flash show progress in an area where the company has lagged behind Anthropic and OpenAI.

In this story: [Gemini 3.8 Flash](https://frontiernewswire.com/models/gemini-3-8-flash), [Gemini 4](https://frontiernewswire.com/models/gemini-4)

## Sources

- [Read the original at TECHMEME](https://www.techmeme.com/260901/p51#a260901p51)

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