> We’ll continue to gather feedback from early testers as we iterate on guardrails before making Argon available to developers, enterprises, and consumers as soon as possible.
Gemini not beating the "can't release a model" allegations
Gemini not beating the "can't release a model" allegations
3.5 Flash-Lite
3.8 Flash
3.1 Pro
3.6 Flash
3.6 Thinking
3.1 ProThe excuse was it was still “in preview” and the enterprise didn’t opt in to the preview channel.
With Google, it’s either in beta or deprecated.
What is your reason to believe this is not a bug specific to a small set of Pro users?
My free gmail account is not.
Google just takes months to roll out their models to everyone.
ok bro thx
They made their model so hard for people to drop into workflows, that people just... didn't.
Lack of adoption caused them to lose out on usage-based training data needed to smooth out their model's rough edges and progress the frontier.
Google gains very little by having us use their models for coding. It doesn't help them in their core mission ("to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful ^W^W^W^W^W^W[and turn it into ad revenue]"), nor would it be anything close to substantial revenue compared to the ads revenue firehose they already have.
They will push AI in a direction that serves their existing goals and service the coding agent model only as is necessary.
If Googles goal was something other than those, why expend Billions in time and effort? Alternatively, they want a part of the regular model use pie, they just struggle to compete. QED, there is no secrete alternate goal here.
There's likely all kinds of internal competition and disagreements and dysfunctions.
So there's that.
But in the last instance, revenues win. OpenAI and Anthropic have to fight for new revenue sources while Google already has a firehose. The motivations are fundamentally different.
I already pay $300+ for subs. Please don't tempt me with another $100 sub just because I got curious if the benchmarks were right.
They even gave their model a random nonsensical name suffix simply because OpenAI is now doing it, too. Monkey see, monkey do.
Opus 5.5 and Sol 6.1, literally state of the art (in their respective class), were just released without any prior announcement. This has pure and simple become a Google thing.
I was going to say I don't know what they'd do for C, since Carbon and Calcium are already things. But knowing Google, they'll probably call it Chromium.