u/Berry-Muncher

There have only been three actual updates regarding the Gemini 3.5 Pro release timeline:

• May 19: At Google I/O, they announced that Gemini 3.5 Pro was in internal use and that they looked forward to rolling it out "next month" (June).
• July 16: In a Bloomberg report, Google employees confirmed that Gemini 3.5 Pro was "months behind schedule" because they hadn't met their internal coding goals yet.
• July 21: AI Studio product lead Logan Kilpatrick said that Gemini 3.5 Pro has entered partner testing.

The only real publicly announced release date that's been missed is June. Everything else (the dates throughout July and August) originates from a mix of genuine speculation and fake "insiders" on social media. Sometimes they add a Gemini image to make it look "official", sometimes they post weird zoomed-in screenshots of code, and sometimes they post messages while hiding who they're really texting.

"But ___ was right that one time!" It's a numbers game. They post random dates all the time, end up being right once by chance, then use that to claim authenticity while ignoring their dozens of misses.

I have no idea why this isn't already in the subreddit rules, but these unverified reports need to be banned. If someone wants to speculate on when they think a model is coming out based on clues (e.g. spotting it on Arena AI), that's cool. Framing it as an insider report is not cool.