1h ago

Logan Kilpatrick, who works on Google AI Studio and Gemini API, says Gemini 3.5 marks the start of a new era for the model family after 2.5 years building infrastructure and teams

Researcher Lucas Beyer questions the 3.5 naming for a fundamental shift.

0
Original post

Gemini 3.5 feels like the start of a new era for Gemini, we spent the last 2.5 years putting the infrastructure, products, team, etc in place (learning lots of lessons along the way). The model is the product, please keep the feedback coming!

7:20 AM · May 20, 2026 View on X

@OfficialLoganK Uhm you don't increment the minor version number if you think it's a new era; doesn't add up.

Logan KilpatrickLogan Kilpatrick@OfficialLoganK

Gemini 3.5 feels like the start of a new era for Gemini, we spent the last 2.5 years putting the infrastructure, products, team, etc in place (learning lots of lessons along the way). The model is the product, please keep the feedback coming!

2:20 PM · May 20, 2026 · 59.9K Views
2:59 PM · May 20, 2026 · 906 Views

Just call it Gemini 4 Pro at this point

Logan KilpatrickLogan Kilpatrick@OfficialLoganK

Gemini 3.5 feels like the start of a new era for Gemini, we spent the last 2.5 years putting the infrastructure, products, team, etc in place (learning lots of lessons along the way). The model is the product, please keep the feedback coming!

2:20 PM · May 20, 2026 · 59.9K Views
3:07 PM · May 20, 2026 · 3.8K Views

@teortaxesTex That's for Q4 against GPT-6 and Claude 5.

Teortaxes▶️ (DeepSeek 推特🐋铁粉 2023 – ∞)Teortaxes▶️ (DeepSeek 推特🐋铁粉 2023 – ∞)@teortaxesTex

Just call it Gemini 4 Pro at this point

3:07 PM · May 20, 2026 · 3.8K Views
3:10 PM · May 20, 2026 · 690 Views
Logan Kilpatrick, who works on Google AI Studio and Gemini API, says Gemini 3.5 marks the start of a new era for the model family after 2.5 years building infrastructure and teams · Digg