Google Delays Gemini 3.5 Pro Launch to July 17 After Scrapping Its Base Model
Google scrapped the original Gemini 3.5 Pro base model and restarted pretraining, pushing the launch to July 17, 2026. Leaked specs point to a 2 million token context window and a new Deep Think reasoning mode, landing right as DeepSeek's own July 24 deadline forces developers to migrate off its old model names.