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Gemini 3.8 Flash training cutoff is still stuck in early 2025... Google is heavily masking outdated base weights with Search grounding

Google pitches Gemini 3.8 Flash as an ultra-fast, modern model, but strip away its search tools, and it's running on severely outdated base training data. To test its raw internal knowledge, I set up a straightforward test. The only restriction I gave it was strictly forbidding internet search—noth…

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  1. 2026-11-08 10:37 · r/GeminiAI
    Gemini 3.8 Flash training cutoff is still stuck in early 2025... Google is heavily masking outdated base weights with Search grounding

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