Alphabet’s Google is months behind schedule on the release of Gemini 3.5 Pro, its most powerful flagship AI model, as the tech giant works to improve its capabilities, particularly in coding.
Delay and Competition
The delay comes amid fierce competition among AI developers to boost model performance, cut costs and expand enterprise capabilities, fueling a steady, industrywide stream of new systems and reasoning models.
The model was due to be released in June, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai had said during Google’s annual I/O developer conference in May. However, the setback has some Google engineers, AI researchers and managers worried as rivals OpenAI and Anthropic release models outperforming Gemini.
Google late last month updated the data used to train Gemini to improve those capabilities, but the results fell short of expectations. Shares of Alphabet slipped nearly 3% following the report.
A company spokesperson told Reuters in a statement, ‘We’re currently testing 3.5 Pro, an upgraded Flash model, and other models with partners, and we’re productively engaged with the U.S. government.’ The spokesperson also said, ‘We’re shipping quickly across a wide range of models while keeping them highly cost-effective for customers.’
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