The delay comes amid fierce competition among AI developers to boost model performance, cut costs and expand enterprise capabilities, fueling a steady, industrywide stream of new systems and reasoning models.

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,…