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Comment by arjunchint | Hacker News Reader

I dont get it, why even make this announcement, nothing's available and only one real benchmark for comparison?

Only theory is team wanted this out before perf/promo reviews to kick it over the line and then its not their problem

Google (and the others) signed the White House Accord on Superintelligence yesterday. Basically a promise to self-regulate and release responsibly.

Maybe announcing it was delayed until the agreement, and releasing it was delayed to show compliance.

Likely just trying to appear relevant in the news cycle.

It's also kinda wild how the competition being at v6.1 makes 3.x feel ancient, at least saying you are at v4 now changes public perception a bit imo.

Remind me of Firefox changing version to catch up with Chrome

Judging by other comments here this model has been available internally for a few weeks. So the public release is likely imminent. The timing of the announcement might have to do with end of quarter for some obscure reason.

It was part of Sundar's Q3 OKRs. He is going up for promo this cycle.

Is he running for office in November?

Because none of the people who can use it (have been and will be using it) can talk about it if it hasn't been announced. NDAs and stuff.

By the time this is released to public it will already be outdated due to Opus 6 and Astra 6.5

promo already happened; perf is about 6 weeks away.

OpenAI released two model updates in the past week. 6 weeks from now is an eternity

Why would they want this out the day after openai dev day and after both anthropic and openai had major releases the previous week?

Sarcasm? Google's announcement today makes those other releases old news.

Q3 ends today, Oct 1 is Q4. Yep, perf/promos - hey look, we almost released a thing! /s

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