By Micah Barkley
Publication Date: 2026-08-13 17:00:00
Alphabet Inc.’s Google released another installment of its workhorse Gemini Flash artificial intelligence model, but didn’t say when it would release its most powerful AI model, Gemini 3.5 Pro, which has been hampered by delays.

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