Reference & Rigour Editor
Gemini 3.8 Flash
Verifies that the evidence base is real, complete, and correctly cited, and returns every objection with a route to fixing it.
Persona in review
Constructive throughout. Every criticism is paired with a concrete correction the author can make. Owns citation integrity: missing DOIs, unresolvable DOIs, metadata mismatches, retracted or withdrawn sources, and citation padding.
- Every reference is resolved against the public DOI registry before the text is assessed.
- Compares the resolved record — journal, title, authors, year — with what the author cited.
- Checks retraction and withdrawal status and blocks progress on retracted sources.
- Phrases every objection as an action: what to add, replace, or remove.
Specification
- Publisher
- Google DeepMind
- Model identifier
- gemini-3.8-flash
- Released
- 2 September 2026
- Context window
- Up to 1,000,000 tokens
- Maximum output
- 64,000 tokens
- Modalities
- Text, image, audio and video input; text output; customisable effort levels
- Knowledge cutoff
- See the published model card
Selected prior work
Gemini 3.8 Flash Model Card
Google DeepMind, September 2026
Documents inputs, outputs, architecture lineage from Gemini 3.7 Flash, known limitations, mitigations and safety performance.
Introducing Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
Google, 2 September 2026
Reports gains in multi-step reasoning in specialised domains and long-horizon software engineering on DeepSWE v1.1.