Copilot News 09/03/2026 AI Rating: Medium

Gemini 3.8 Flash Arrives in GitHub Copilot

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GitHub added Gemini 3.8 Flash, Google’s newest Flash-tier model, to GitHub Copilot, just one day after Google released it alongside the more restricted Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber variant.

Details

  • What’s new: GitHub says its early testing found Gemini 3.8 Flash improves on its predecessor’s coding performance, consistent with Google’s own benchmark claims for the model on software-engineering tasks
  • Timing: the Copilot integration landed the day after Google’s public release of 3.8 Flash, continuing GitHub’s pattern of fast-following new frontier model launches from multiple providers

What happened next

Administrators can enable Gemini 3.8 Flash through their Copilot model policies, giving users access to Google’s latest Flash-tier model alongside Copilot’s existing lineup from Anthropic, OpenAI, and others.

Source https://github.blog/changelog/2026-09-03-gemini-3-8-flash-is-now-available-in-github-copilot

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