My Gemini app (updated today) and https://gemini.google.com/ has _3.6_ as the latest selectable model, as a paying Pro user in the US. How is that even possible? Gemini 3.7 was released in August, 3.8 early September. What is going on over there?
replyIn my consumer gmail account with Pro, I see:
reply 3.5 Flash-Lite
3.8 Flash
3.1 Pro
3.6 Flash
3.6 Thinking
3.1 ProI would imagine you are experiencing a bug. I've been using 3.8 daily since its release (on a Pro plan in Canada). I believe this is true of many people.
replyWhat is your reason to believe this is not a bug specific to a small set of Pro users?
My paid company Google Workspace account is stuck on 3.6.
replyMy free gmail account is not.
just Google being whatever the fuck it's been for the past 15 years.
replyThat's weird. I got 3.8 and 3.7 on the days they were released. https://imgur.com/a/Xu4wRLM (this is on gemini.google.com, but the same is true of the iOS app and the desktop app).
replyI was reading the announcement and wondering the same. And don't forget, still with 3.1 Pro as the frontier model.
replyIndeed. They have this amazing model and you can’t access it in their own branded app. It’s insane.
replythey moved it from the place you'd expect to ai.studio
replyWhen I said I was tired of Google launching waitlists I didn't think they would respond by simply not having a waitlist.
replyi know this is like "hey guys we got such a cool thing at home ,its rad and uhm we playing with it with our friends"
replyok bro thx
Yeah what's up with that. Also what's with the next big update for Nano Banana? Nano Banana Pro was released almost a year ago!
replyI'm glad.
replyI already pay $300+ for subs. Please don't tempt me with another $100 sub just because I got curious if the benchmarks were right.
They will go through the usual transition of "can't release a model" to "won't load in a harness normal people can use for 3-4 weeks" to "it's smart as hell but completely inept at tool use and coding" like every Gemini release.
replyThey're just following the current AI marketing playbook. "Our new model is simply too dangerous to release to the public right away" is now standard practice.
replyThey even gave their model a random nonsensical name suffix simply because OpenAI is now doing it, too. Monkey see, monkey do.
I'm still at a loss as to what argon has to do with anything. Say what you will about Luna-Terra-Sol-Astra, or Haiku-Sonnet-Opus, they make sense. I don't see how Google can make sense of argon; it's in a fairly strange place in the periodic table...
replyAll-my-tokens-ar-gon
replyThey are going alphabetically, Android style.
replyYeah, I heard the next one was Barium...or was it Boron?
replyI was going to say I don't know what they'd do for C, since Carbon and Calcium are already things. But knowing Google, they'll probably call it Chromium.
They could use caesium or cadmium, which are hardly less weird than argon.
replyGoogle R Gon lose the AI race
reply> now standard practice.
replyOpus 5.5 and Sol 6.1, literally state of the art (in their respective class), were just released without any prior announcement. This has pure and simple become a Google thing.
OpenAI said they dropped Astra 6.1 over safety concerns: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-chatgpt-model-release-can...
replyI don't read that as the same category: There was no announcement, no benchmarks, no limited release and no promises about what will happen with that model. It failed internal safety standards. Might be scrapped entirely due to a failed training run, for all we know.
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