Google DeepMind Targets July 17 for Rebuilt Gemini 3.5 Pro With 2 Million Tokens

3 articles · Updated · Tech Times · Jul 13

July 17 is the leaked target for Gemini 3.5 Pro general availability, but Google had not posted a model card, pricing page or public API listing as of July 13.
Third-party reports say Google scrapped a near-ready version and restarted pre-training after the model faltered in recursive tool-calling and complex SVG layout generation—core weaknesses for agentic coding.
A rebuilt release is rumored to add a 2-million-token context window, Deep Think reasoning and autonomous workflow handling, though none of those specifications has been confirmed by Google.
Gemini 3.5 Flash has carried production workloads since May 19, with Google-confirmed benchmarks topping Gemini 3.1 Pro and pricing at $1.50 per million input tokens and $9 output.
The timing matters because GPT-5.6 Sol and Grok 4.5 launched on July 9; another slip would leave Google chasing rivals already in developers' production stacks.