Has been ongoing for roughly a month now, with a variety of checkpoints along the usual speculation. As it stands, I'd just wait for the official announcement,

Has been ongoing for roughly a month now, with a variety of checkpoints along the usual speculation. As it stands, I'd just wait for the official announcement, prior to making any judgement. What their release plans are, whether a checkpoint is a possible replacement for Pro, Flash, Flash Lite, a new category of model, won't be released at all, etc. we cannot know. More importantly, because of the way AIStudio does A/B testing, the only output we can get is for a single prompt and I personally maintain that outside of getting some basic understanding on speed, latency and prompt adherence, output from one single prompt is not a good measure for performance in the day-to-day. It also, naturally, cannot tell us a thing about handling multi file ingest and tool calls, but hype will be hype. That there are people who are ranking alleged performance solely by one-prompt A/B testing output says a lot about how unprofessionally some evaluate model performance. Not saying the Gemini 3.0 models couldn't be competitive, I just want to caution against getting caught up in over-excitement and possible disappointment. Same reason I dislike speculative content in general, it rarely is put into the proper context cause that isn't as eyecatching.