Google has been working on beefing up the model’s skills, “particularly in coding,” Bloomberg reports. At I/O in May, Google said that 3.5 Pro was “already being used internally” and that “we look forward to rolling it out next month.” [Link: Google Gemini Launch Delayed as Tech Falls Short of Internal Goals | https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-16/google-gemini-launch-delayed-as-tech-falls-short-of-internal-goals | Bloomberg]

Google is months behind on its Gemini Pro upgrade as coding falls short, engineers leave for Anthropic, and a training data refresh disappointed internally.

July 16 : Alphabet's Google is months behind schedule on the release of Gemini 3.5 Pro, its most powerful flagship AI model, as the tech giant works to improve its capabilities,…