A lab delays its flagship a second time to retrain a fresh base

Claim

Google delayed Gemini 3.5 Pro a second time to retrain a fresh two-million-token-context base, even as leaks touted its best design taste yet and an internal checkpoint already led Design Arena.

Reported metric: 2M context

Reporting date: 2026-07-11 (not necessarily the event date)

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• Welcome to July 11, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)