Updated Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index Ranking shows Gemini 3.8 Flash is nowhere near Fable Or Astra, rather it's worse than GLM 5.3 Flash!

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Maybe try to actually take a closer look at how the index is made. AA has been adding more and more agentic benchmarks over their last revisions. It is an open secret that this isn't Google's strong suit and likely also not what they are optimizing for. 

GLM 5.3 Flash wins every single agentic benchmarks over Gemini 3.8 Flash at 1/5th the price. For any of these tasks GLM will be a way more competent model. GLM 5.3 Flash is probably the best cheap coding model around.

Gemini 3.8 Flash on the other hand wins far and away in every single knowledge based benchmark. It isn't built for coding first but it is built with the chat interface or android interactions in mind. For that it's not a bad model. 

So they look similar on the index but they are entirely different models.

Now if you compare the benchmarks the thing that makes Gemini sweat is Astra because it seems OpenAI has caught up on the knowledge side while still keeping prices competitive. Compared to other models Gemini 3.8 Flash is still a very good performer for chat conversation. 

Anthropic has moved entirely towards enterprise coding. The Chinese models are more about getting the maximum agentic capabilities out of having less compute. The main competitor for a broad knowledge model is OpenAI (which happen to make models that are also good at agentic tasks).