TL;DR
- The Gemini 3.5 Pro is reportedly months behind schedule as Google tries to improve the model.
- Bloomberg says the delay has frustrated employees, with some concerned Anthropic and OpenAI are moving forward.
- Although Google has recently updated the model’s training data, encoding performance seems to be a big problem.
Google will certainly feel that it is ahead of the race with AI other great hittersbut his next big Gemini model is said to be struggling to get over the line. Gemini 3.5 Pro is reportedly months behind schedule as Google works to bring it up to internal standards.
according to Bloombergthe delay is based on information from people familiar with the matter, along with ten current and former Google employees. The failure is said to have frustrated engineers, researchers and managers within the company, with some worried that Anthropic and OpenAI may be making further headway.
Google will reportedly unveil Gemini 3.5 Pro at its developer conference in May. Bloomberg reported that Google updated the model’s training data late last month to improve these abilities, but the results appear to be one of the main problems with the coding.
Google’s sheer size works against it, the report suggests. Multiple teams across Google Cloud, DeepMind, Android, and other parts of the company are building AI coding tools, while multiple stakeholders are involved in preparing models for release. Employees are also said to face competition for computing power when trying to use AI internally.
Google has pushed back on the idea that it’s moving too slowly, with a spokesperson saying it’s “shipping rapidly across a wide range of models” while keeping them cost-effective. The company has also confirmed that it is testing the upgraded Gemini 3.5 Pro Flash modeland other models while discussing model testing and safety standards with the US government with partners.
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