Gemini 3.5 Pro
Core Facts
Timeline (last 90 days)
Argon is built on an entirely new pretraining foundation, after Google previously scrapped the release plan for Gemini 3.5 Pro.
The originally planned Gemini 3.5 Pro was cut, and DeepMind leadership was adjusted after Demis Hassabis stepped back.
In model naming conventions, "3.5 Pro" implies an intermediate iteration spanning an entire major version, typically signifying a substantive breakthrough in reasoning capability, instruction following, or multimodal understanding.
Google has decided to officially abandon the checkpoint versions of Gemini 3.5 Pro.
According to The Wall Street Journal, Google's internal evaluation showed that these intermediate checkpoint models had no significant performance advantage over the Flash series.
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Gemini 3.5 Pro uses a MoE (Mixture of Experts) architecture at its core
75%VerifiedGoogle has decided to officially abandon the checkpoint versions of Gemini 3.5 Pro.
65%UnverifiedArgon is built on an entirely new pretraining foundation, after Google previously scrapped the release plan for Gemini 3.5 Pro.
50%UnverifiedIn model naming conventions, "3.5 Pro" implies an intermediate iteration spanning an entire major version, typically signifying a substantive breakthrough in reasoning capability, instruction following, or multimodal understanding.
50%UnverifiedAccording to The Wall Street Journal, Google's internal evaluation showed that these intermediate checkpoint models had no significant performance advantage over the Flash series.
50%UnverifiedThe originally planned Gemini 3.5 Pro was cut, and DeepMind leadership was adjusted after Demis Hassabis stepped back.
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