Google Threw Its Model in the Trash and Started from Scratch

Google just did something that major tech companies rarely admit: throw a model in the trash and start from scratch. Wait, literally from scratch? Literally. According to reports this week, DeepMind discarded the base architecture of Gemini 2.5 Pro, which was supposed to be the foundation of Gemini 3.5 Pro, and started an entirely new pretraining cycle. That’s not fine-tuning. That’s acknowledging that the path you were on wasn’t going to get you where you needed to go.

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