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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.

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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 · 115.3K Views
2:59 PM · May 20, 2026 · 4.4K 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 · 115.3K Views
3:07 PM · May 20, 2026 · 12K Views

Thinking again about it > we spent the last 2.5 years putting the infrastructure, products, team, etc in place yeah makes sense they have NOT pretrained a new model, or even refreshed the data. (There has been a bit of an update, eg it knows me) Google is very… longtermist.

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 · 115.3K Views
4:03 PM · May 20, 2026 · 2.1K Views
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Thinking again about it > we spent the last 2.5 years putting the infrastructure, products, team, etc in place yeah makes sense they have NOT pretrained a new model, or even refreshed the data. (There has been a bit of an update, eg it knows me) Google is very… longtermist.

4:03 PM · May 20, 2026 · 2.1K Views
4:07 PM · May 20, 2026 · 808 Views

“On what do I base the belief that the 2026 results were a "hypothetical projection"?

I base this on the fundamental structure of my data.” fair enough

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4:07 PM · May 20, 2026 · 808 Views
4:10 PM · May 20, 2026 · 663 Views

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

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Just call it Gemini 4 Pro at this point

3:07 PM · May 20, 2026 · 12K Views
3:10 PM · May 20, 2026 · 1.1K Views

looks like gemini 3.5 is a flop. great opportunity to buy the dip and obtain some anthropic-waymo stock on sale

5:39 PM · May 20, 2026 · 125 Views
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