Google has unveiled its new AI, Gemini Flash, but is delaying the release of its most powerful model

The day after the unveiling of the Pixel 11 smartphone with built-in AI, Google released a new version of its flagship AI model, Gemini Flash. However, the company did not say when it would unveil its most powerful model—Gemini 3.5 Pro—whose launch has been delayed, according to Bloomberg.

Gemini 3.7 Flash outperforms its predecessor in programming tasks and is also better at generating production-ready code at an industrial scale, Google announced. The company claims that the model also allows developers to create applications with fewer requests, simplifies developers’ work, and reduces the cost of the tokens required to use it. Starting August 13, Gemini 3.7 Flash will also run Google’s AI agent to boost the performance of Gemini Spark.

Google announced that it has strengthened the security measures for Gemini 3.7 Flash. Specifically, the model is designed to better block attempts to use AI for hacking attacks, as well as for dangerous operations involving chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear materials.

Despite expanding the Gemini Flash lineup, Google is struggling to keep pace with OpenAI and Anthropic in the race to develop the most advanced AI models, according to Bloomberg. The delay in the release of Gemini 3.5 Pro has led investors to question Google’s future development plans, particularly in commercially important areas such as AI-assisted programming, the agency reports. Bloomberg reported on the delay in the release of the flagship model in mid-July. Google itself did not announce the postponement of the Gemini 3.5 Pro release, but in May, on its official blog, it promised that the flagship model—which is already in use within the company—would be released “next month,” meaning in June. On June 24, Business Insider, citing a source within the company, reported that the release of 3.5 Pro had been pushed back to July.

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai stated during the most recent earnings call in July that Google intends to accelerate the release of new models. According to him, the company is already dedicating significant computing resources to training the upcoming Gemini 4. Shortly before the earnings report was released, the tech giant unveiled three new versions of Flash at once, aiming to improve the efficiency and quality of its models, but it still has not released a Pro version.

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