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Google pushed Flash to general availability and rolled out Gemini in Chrome (Windows/Mac for AI Pro/Ultra in the US), Gemini Omni globally to subscribers 18+, and a US Daily Brief (Google Gemini). The Flash GA is the builder-relevant piece: frontier-ish quality at speed and price points that work for high-volume agent loops, which is exactly where you don't want to pay top-tier model rates per call. Timing is "late June" rollout rather than a single dated drop, so treat the exact date as approximate.
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Analyst tracking puts Gemini 3.5 Pro inside a GA window of roughly this week, with a confirmed 2-million-token context (double Gemini 3.5 Flash's 1M and the largest in any production frontier model), a Deep Think mode reserved for the $250/month Ultra tier, and multimodal supp...
GA and stable for production across the Gemini API, Enterprise, and Antigravity, and now the default in the Gemini app and AI Mode in Search globally. Google pitches frontier-level intelligence at ~4x the speed of comparable models, priced at $1.50/$9 per 1M tokens, 1M-token c...
Microsoft unveiled MAI-Code-1-Flash at Build, its first model that turns written descriptions into source code for apps and websites, explicitly aimed at lowering developer costs and cutting its dependence on OpenAI (CNBC). Same week, Google pushed Gemini 3.5 Flash to general...
- Source: IT Pro - Date: 2026-02-04 Google Cloud revenue hit $17.7B (up 48% YoY), 2026 CapEx planned at $175-185B. Announced "Universal Commerce Protocol" for agentic shopping. Google is quietly building the largest AI distribution moat through Android/Chrome/Search integration.
"Gemini is Cooked but GCP is Cooking" argues Google quietly shelved 3.5 Pro, which industry chatter placed at roughly Opus 4.5 level, shipping Gemini 3.6 Flash as a bridge the authors call worse than Muse Spark 1.2, Grok 4.5, and tier-1 Chinese open-source models. The hard num...
Google launched agentic video understanding across Gemini 3.7 Flash, 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite (Google). Instead of scanning a video start to finish at a fixed sample rate, the model runs an internal loop deciding what to watch, at what speed, and through which channel: fra...
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