[DigitalToday reporter Chi-gyu Hwang (황치규)] Shares of Google parent Alphabet fell 4 percent on July 16, local time, after reports that the launch of its flagship AI model Gemini 3.5 Pro was delayed.
CNBC reported that Google delayed the schedule for unveiling the Gemini 3.5 Flash model by several months to improve performance.
Bloomberg reported, citing sources familiar with the matter, that Gemini 3.5 Pro's code-generation performance fell short of internal expectations.
Google unveiled Gemini 3.5 Pro at its annual developer event, Google I/O, in May. It said at the time it was using the model internally and planned a broader rollout in June.
Code generation is seen as an area of focus for companies such as Anthropic, OpenAI and Chinese AI firm Z.ai.
Meta unveiled Muse Spark 1.1 last week. Alexandr Wang, Meta's head of AI, described it as the most powerful model Meta offers for agent-based tasks and coding. OpenAI also launched GPT-5.6 SolAI last week, and Sam Altman said the model is 54 percent more token-efficient in agent-based coding tasks.
Chi-gyu Hwang (황치규)
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