Perceive Beating AI News Flash, according to The Wall Street Journal reporter Erin Woo citing insider sources, Google's artificial intelligence research division is set to unveil the Gemini 3.8 Flash, a new model with significantly enhanced encoding capabilities. Internally codenamed "Skimaki," the model is expected to go live as early as Wednesday, September 2nd. In comparative tests with Google's in-house encoding tool Jetski, company engineers have shown a stronger preference for this new model over Anthropic's Opus.