Google delays Gemini 3.5 Pro release over coding performance shortfalls versus OpenAI and Anthropic

According to the Los Angeles Times, Google has delayed Gemini 3.5 Pro, its flagship AI model, by months to improve coding capabilities after missing internal performance benchmarks by significant margins. The delay has caused frustration among Google engineers and researchers concerned the company risks losing competitive ground to Anthropic and OpenAI, which have recently released models that outpace Gemini's current offerings in code generation.