Google has been releasing many Gemini 2.0 and Gemini 2.5 model variants. There is the new Gemini Flash image model. The flurry of releases is before Google IO later this month.
Usually Google saves up its biggest releases for its Google IO event.
This leads to speculation that Google will release a Google Ultra or Google Gemini 3 model at Google IO.
This is likely that there will be a step up and major model releases in 2 weeks at Google IO.
There has been substantial model improvements from all major AI companies.
xAI is releasing Grok 3.5 using about three times the training this week to early access subscribers. Grok 3.5 will be more widely available by Google IO.
There will be a showdown between xAI Grok 3.5 and the Google IO releases of models. There will likely be other models from OpenAI and others.
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