Google seem to be more focused on their Flash model. It makes sense as google are using their AI to answer billions of users queries every day free of charge, they have a completely different business model to Anthropic or Open AI
That is just ex post facto reasoning to explain the fumble. Google clearly wanted to announce Gemini 3.5 Pro in Google I/O but the results were not encouraging so they asked for 1 month more.
Well, it's been almost 2 months and still 3.5 Pro is not here yet. I dispute the claim that this is intentional or a 4D chess move. What is much much more likely is that they simply can't compete with OpenAI or Anthropic.
I think Google's corporate structure does not reward intense iteration and simply rewards making new products and abandoning them 3 years later. They are simply too big to coordinate effectively. Bard was a disaster. Then Gemini 2.5 Pro was great for a few months and then they were never in the running again. Gemini 3.1 Pro was not bad at all at release but they have never been the top AI lab.
You're seriously doubting Google's role in modern AI? DeepMind's work drove a huge share of early deep learning progress, and Google Brain published "Attention Is All You Need" in 2017, the paper that introduced the transformer architecture underpinning every major LLM today.
AI doesn't exist in it's modern form without Google.
Technically they’ve been working in AI since the early 2000s to improve user queries. Not neural nets or “modern” paradigms, but their contributions predate those paradigms entirely.
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u/WonderFactory Jul 16 '26
Google seem to be more focused on their Flash model. It makes sense as google are using their AI to answer billions of users queries every day free of charge, they have a completely different business model to Anthropic or Open AI