Gemini 3.5 Pro Reportedly Canceled Amid DeepMind Leadership Turmoil
量子位 · wechat · 2026-08-11
According to institutions like SemiAnalysis, the highly anticipated Gemini 3.5 Pro has reportedly been quietly canceled after multiple delays. Google has only released Flash models as a transition, but they still lag behind top competitors in complex reasoning.
Facing model iteration bottlenecks, Google DeepMind is experiencing significant leadership and strategic turmoil. Demis Hassabis stepped down as CEO, and several key veterans left. Co-founder Sergey Brin has returned to the frontline of AI operations to personally lead strategic discussions and push AI coding initiatives.
Furthermore, compute allocation is highlighted as a core challenge. Analysis suggests Google is prioritizing massive TPU resources for cloud clients like Anthropic, limiting the training capacity for its own frontier model teams. This resource trade-off between cloud revenue and frontier model competition poses a strategic dilemma for Google.
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