Gemini's Fall from Frontier Status and Abandonment of Deep Think Mode Spark Debate
emollick · x · 2026-08-07
Observers note that Google's Gemini has ceased to be a frontier model series, which is astonishing. Unlike Meta and SpaceX, Google has captive enterprise customers for Gemini, but they are now pushed towards Gemini 3.1 Pro, creating a problem. Additionally, Deep Think mode, which held promise as an alternative to GPT-5 Pro, appears to have been abandoned.
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