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Google Gemini 2.5 Guide — Updated

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This guide has been updated to cover the current Gemini 3.x model family. Please see the new guide at the link below.

Jun 27, 2026·1 min read·Yash Thakker

This guide has been updated. The Gemini 2.5 model family has been superseded by the Gemini 3.x generation, including Gemini 3.5 Flash, Gemini 3.1 Pro, Gemini Omni, and Deep Think.

Please read the updated guide: Google Gemini 3.5 Complete Guide 2026

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Sep 2, 2026

Gemini 3.8 Flash Is Official: Benchmarks, Flash Cyber, and Pricing

Google confirmed Gemini 3.8 Flash and a cybersecurity-focused Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber on September 2, 2026, at the same $0.75/$3.75 introductory pricing as 3.7 Flash. Here's what the official benchmarks (DeepSWE, HLE-Verified, CyberGym, CWE-Bench) actually show against Claude Opus 5, what the new Fairwind Program is, and what was still rumor when we first published this piece hours earlier.

Aug 27, 2026

Gemini 3.5 Transcribe: What Builders Actually Get

Google launched Gemini 3.5 Transcribe on August 26, 2026 with two model IDs, 85+ language auto-detection, and function calling inside the transcription call. explainx.ai breaks down the real pricing, the smart-vs-verbatim trade-off that decides whether it is legal for your use case, and where it loses to the incumbents.

Aug 27, 2026

Gemini's Ox Alpha Timing Backlash: The Corrected Timeline

Three posts from Google Gemini team members got read as trolling a rival model's launch. The dates say otherwise: the posts are from August 22, 2026, and Z.ai did not reveal Ox Alpha as GLM-5.3-Flash until August 26. Logan Kilpatrick's public reply was substantially correct — and underneath the drama sits a real practitioner question about how free preview windows distort model evaluation.

Google Gemini 2.5 Guide — Updated

Google Gemini 2.5 Guide — Updated

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