According to people familiar with the matter, Google is months behind schedule in delivering its most powerful flagship AI model, Gemini 3.5 Pro, and the company is trying to use this opportunity to improve its capabilities, particularly in terms of code writing. This delay has sparked frustration among Google engineers, AI researchers, and management, who are concerned that the company is at risk of losing its market advantage to rivals Anthropic and OpenAI. Google has been working to improve Gemini's capabilities, including updating data for training models, and has also communicated with the US government about its AI capabilities and safety standards.

According to people familiar with the matter, Google is months behind schedule in delivering its most powerful flagship AI model, Gemini 3.5 Pro, and the company is trying to use this opportunity to improve its capabilities, particularly in terms of code writing. This delay has sparked frustration among Google engineers, AI researchers, and management, who are concerned that the company is at risk of losing its market advantage to rivals Anthropic and OpenAI. Google has been working to improve Gemini's capabilities, including updating data for training models, and has also communicated with the US government about its AI capabilities and safety standards.