Research2026-09-02

Google released ARC-AGI results for Gemini 3.8 Flash. It scored 98.5% on ARC-AGI-1 at high reasoning. It scored 89.2% on ARC-AGI-2 at high reasoning. It scored 10.4% on ARC-AGI-3 with Standard harness at high reasoning. It scored 35.0% on ARC-AGI-3 with Provider Adapter harness at high reasoning. Standard harness lets the model keep chosen notes across the environment. Provider Adapter harness preserves opaque reasoning state between requests. Both harnesses were tested across 25 environments. Results are verified by ARC Prize. The model card and blog post are linked from the results page.

What it unlocks

Higher scores on ARC-AGI benchmarks with reasoning variants and harness configurations.

  • 98.5% on ARC-AGI-1
  • 89.2% on ARC-AGI-2
  • 10.4% on ARC-AGI-3 Standard
  • 35.0% on ARC-AGI-3 Provider Adapter

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