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Koray Kavukcuoglu, in his first public appearance as head of Google DeepMind, said Google wants to release "an early post-training output" of Gemini 4 as soon as possible, and admitted Google "took a little bit of a step back" by shipping Flash models instead of a Gemini 3.5 Pro (The Verge). No benchmarks, no date. Same month as Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol/Luna.
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The flagship slipped past July 17, the third postponement since an original June 2026 date. Bloomberg-sourced reporting attributes it to coding benchmarks failing to match GPT-5.6, plus hallucination and output-consistency problems, with a retraining data refresh aimed at codi...
"Gemini is Cooked but GCP is Cooking" argues Google quietly shelved 3.5 Pro, which industry chatter placed at roughly Opus 4.5 level, shipping Gemini 3.6 Flash as a bridge the authors call worse than Muse Spark 1.2, Grok 4.5, and tier-1 Chinese open-source models. The hard num...
Google DeepMind shipped computer use as a built-in tool inside Gemini 3.5 Flash on June 24, collapsing the standalone Oct-2025 computer-use model into the same model you already use for function calling, Search grounding, and Maps. One agent sees a screen, clicks, types, and l...
Microsoft unveiled MAI-Code-1-Flash at Build, its first model that turns written descriptions into source code for apps and websites, explicitly aimed at lowering developer costs and cutting its dependence on OpenAI (CNBC). Same week, Google pushed Gemini 3.5 Flash to general...
Google's Gemini 3.2 Flash appeared in the Gemini iOS app and AI Studio before any official announcement. It showed up on LM Arena benchmarks. And the numbers are real: 92% of GPT-5.5's coding and reasoning performance with sub-200ms latency at roughly 1/15th the cost. Source:...
GPT-5.6 Luna went to $0.20 input / $1.20 output per million tokens on July 30. That's an 80% cut. Terra dropped 20%. Luna's input now undercuts Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite ($0.25/$1.50) and sits at one-fifth of Claude Haiku 4.5's $1 input. Simon Willison covered the announcement and...
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