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Google (with Google DeepMind) builds the Gemini family of AI models.
Google's frontier model slipped for months and got rebuilt from scratch. Now the spin says it ships with no government restrictions. The real reason is less flattering.
Voluntary is doing a lot of work in a sentence where the last non-compliant model went dark in 90 minutes.
Flash shipped. Pro got a date-shaped promise. Guess which one you can actually use.
The privacy company's flagship AI is, at its core, a rented model. That's the actual story.
Genuinely impressive. Also genuinely narrow. Both at once.
The results are real. So are the caveats nobody screenshots.
Gemini 3.5 Flash is out. Gemini 3.5 Pro is a 'next month'. Notice which one got the keynote.