[Google May Release Gemini 3.8 Flash as Early as Wednesday] Breaking AI News from Beating AI: According to a report by *The Wall Street Journal* journalist Erin Woo, citing employee sources, Google's artificial intelligence research division is set to release the new Gemini 3.8 Flash model, which features significantly enhanced coding capabilities. Internally, the model is codenamed 'Skimaki' and could go live as early as Wednesday (September 2). In comparison tests with Google's internal coding tool Jetski, company engineers showed a stronger preference for this new model over Anthropic's Opus.