Google has reportedly postponed the launch of its Gemini 3.5 Pro artificial intelligence (AI) model. A report claims that the tech giant is pushing the release from June to July despite CEO Sundar Pichai previously saying at the company’s annual developer conference, I/O, that it would arrive “next month.” According to a report by Business Insider, the company is delaying the launch of the next Gemini model to gather more feedback from early testers and refine it before its wider rollout. Google previewed Gemini 3.5 Pro during its I/O event in May but said the model was not yet ready for release. Meanwhile, a Google spokesperson declined to comment on the reported delay, the report added.Google has yet to announce an exact July release date for Gemini 3.5 Pro and disclose additional details about the AI model’s broader availability.
What may be the reason behind Google delaying Gemini 3.5 Pro launch
The report cited a person familiar with the matter to claim that Google postponed the launch to collect more real-world feedback from early users and make further improvements to the Gemini 3.5 Pro model.The report notes that Gemini 3.5 Pro has already been available to selected users through Google’s Antigravity platform and the AI benchmarking site LMArena. Feedback from these testers is being used to improve the model’s performance on longer, more complex tasks and AI agents.Google has also reportedly incorporated learnings from its recently released Gemini 3.5 Flash model into Gemini 3.5 Pro. One area of focus was addressing feedback that Flash consumed tokens too quickly, the report added. The upcoming model is expected to improve performance on long-horizon tasks and agent-based workflows.The delay comes as Google faces competition from other AI companies in enterprise AI, particularly in coding-related applications. While Gemini 3 exceeded expectations following its launch last year, competitors, including OpenAI and Anthropic, have continued to strengthen their coding-focused AI offerings.Recently, the company also went through leadership changes involving researchers associated with Google’s AI efforts. Noam Shazeer, a vice president of engineering working on Gemini and one of the authors of the 2017 research paper “Attention Is All You Need”, is reportedly leaving Google for OpenAI.Apart from Shazeer, John Jumper, the Google DeepMind scientist whose AlphaFold research contributed to the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, is reportedly leaving for Anthropic.
