Google delays Gemini 3.5 Pro to July — and explains why
The new version of Google's AI model arrives later than planned. The company says it's to fine-tune efficiency and performance on long tasks.
Anyone hoping to get their hands on the new Gemini 3.5 Pro will need a little more patience. Google confirmed it is pushing the launch of its latest artificial-intelligence model to July, after gathering feedback from testers.
Why the delay
According to the company, the delay is meant to improve two points that more technical users value: token efficiency — spending fewer resources to do the same work — and performance on long, agentic tasks, the ones where the AI has to chain many steps without losing its way.
It may sound like a detail, but this is where the next phase of the AI race is being played. Answering a question well is no longer enough: models have to be able to carry out complex tasks autonomously and reliably. And there is still plenty to fine-tune there.
What it means for us
For the average user, a delay like this is mostly a sign of how fierce the competition is. Google, OpenAI and company are shipping versions at a dizzying pace, and nobody wants to risk putting out a half-baked product.
Interestingly, this race is also fought over people: OpenAI has been poaching Google heavyweights, as we reported in the case of the Transformer’s creator. To follow the announcements first-hand, the best bet is Google’s official blog.
By Oliver Grant
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