# 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) — retained record

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Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260901/p51#a260901p51

<a href="https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/new-google-ai-model-said-to-narrow-gap-on-coding-ability-264c6052?st=aeqCY9&amp;reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260901/i51.jpg" vspace="4" /></a>
<p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260901/p51#a260901p51" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Erin Woo / <a href="https://www.wsj.com/">Wall Street Journal</a>:<br />
<span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/new-google-ai-model-said-to-narrow-gap-on-coding-ability-264c6052?st=aeqCY9&amp;reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink">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</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Internal tests of Gemini 3.8 Flash show progress in an area where the company has lagged behind Anthropic and OpenAI.</p>
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