Gemini 3.8 Flash in Canada and Japan, Claude fast mode GA, Meta Muse in Preview

Gemini 3.8 Flash regional support in Canada and Japan

Gemini 3.8 Flash (gemini-3.8-flash) is generally available (GA) in Canada (northamerica-northeast1) and Japan (asia-northeast1). On Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, both regions support regional endpoints, in-region ML processing for data residency, and Provisioned Throughput.

For more information, see Deployments and endpoints and Data residency.

Fast mode for Anthropic Claude models is generally available

Fast mode for supported Anthropic Claude models, starting with Claude Fable 5.2 (claude-fable-5-2), is available in General Availability (GA). You can set "speed": "fast" in online pay-as-you-go prediction requests to accelerate output token generation for latency-sensitive agentic workflows.

For more information, see Fast mode with Anthropic Claude models.

Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.2

Claude Fable 5.2 (claude-fable-5-2) is available in General Availability (GA) in Model Garden, including support for fast mode ("speed": "fast").

Meta Muse models in Preview

Muse Wonder from Meta (meta/muse-wonder-1.0), Muse Ember from Meta (meta/muse-ember-1.0), and Muse Spark 1.3 from Meta (meta/muse-spark-1.3) are available in Preview on the global endpoint through the OpenAI-compatible Responses API. Muse Wonder and Muse Spark 1.3 accept text, image, and PDF inputs, and Muse Ember accepts text and image inputs. All three models support reasoning, function calling, structured output, and a 1M-token context window.

For more information, see Muse models from Meta.