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Re:Is It Out Yet? by throwa356262 on Monday June 29, 2026 @06:29PM (#48726180)
I am more interested in the next Qwen, deepseek, Gemma, Mistral, whathaveyou

AOG models are fine, but who knows if my company will be approved by WH to use their next model.

Besides, from a technical point of view the new open models seem to be where most leaps are being made so even if you don't use them it is good to keep an eye on them.

Re:Is It Out Yet? by kibibu on Monday June 29, 2026 @06:35PM (#48726242)
Since when is AOG a well-known abbreviation?

I presume you mean Anthropic-OpenAI-Google?

Re:Is It Out Yet? by cyanydeez on Monday June 29, 2026 @06:59PM (#48726447)
probably trying to stop saying SOTA because that has some weird implication that's not warranted at this point.
Re:Is It Out Yet? by recursive on Monday June 29, 2026 @08:10PM (#48727003)
What's that?
Re:Is It Out Yet? by cyanydeez on Monday June 29, 2026 @09:12PM (#48727438)
thats independtly verified and not just a gold spraypaint on bloated models that are indifferentialable from open weights.
Re:Is It Out Yet? by fragmede on Monday June 29, 2026 @09:44PM (#48727623)
you can't say they're state of the art if we know that there are better models that they're not allowed to release to the public
Re:Is It Out Yet? by kerv on Monday June 29, 2026 @06:36PM (#48726249)
Add GTA6 to this list
Re:Is It Out Yet? by swingboy on Monday June 29, 2026 @07:13PM (#48726563)
These guesstimate release dates seem…soon. Usually the Polymarket markets are pretty accurate and really accurate when an insider at one of the companies puts a bet.
Re:Is It Out Yet? by siva7 on Monday June 29, 2026 @06:45PM (#48726327)
Wow i can't remember the last time i used Gemini or heard techies talking about Google ai.
Re:Is It Out Yet? by UncleOxidant on Monday June 29, 2026 @06:55PM (#48726414)
I'm old enough to remember that around last Fall people were declaring Google AI dead and then they came out with Gemini 3.1 Pro and there was a bunch of discussion about how Google was back and was going to end up ultimately beating the rest because they have their own TPUs, vast amounts of data, etc.

My guess is that Google will (finally) release Gemini 3.5 Pro and it will be pretty decent compared to OpenAI and Anthropic and we'll see discussions again about how Google is "back". Wash, rinse, repeat.

Re:Is It Out Yet? by vineyardmike on Monday June 29, 2026 @07:05PM (#48726505)
> Google was back and was going to end up ultimately beating the rest because they have their own TPUs

Meanwhile Claude, ChatGPT, etc all now run at least partially on TPUs. At the same time, Anthropic, Meta, and others are buying TPU hardware directly for their own data centers.

Did they win with the best frontier model? Not with one they've made, but all the best frontier models do run on TPUs, and Google is making plenty of money along the way.

Re:Is It Out Yet? by QQ00 on Monday June 29, 2026 @08:40PM (#48727191)
They also lost bunch of their top AI researchers for Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic.
Re:Is It Out Yet? by esseph on Monday June 29, 2026 @09:42PM (#48727611)
I use it every day through both my pixel phone and the website itself on desktop.
Re:Is It Out Yet? by Avicebron on Monday June 29, 2026 @06:25PM (#48726145)
If we put this on kalshi or whatever do you think they would release fable 5 faster?
Re:Is It Out Yet? by keyle on Monday June 29, 2026 @07:02PM (#48726474)
We used to get excited about games, movies... books...
Re:Is It Out Yet? by nozzlegear on Monday June 29, 2026 @07:19PM (#48726616)
I'm pretty excited for Adrian Tchaikovsky's next installment in his The Tyrant Philosophers series. I swear there isn't a book he could put out that I'll think is dull, but this series in particular hits home for me.
Re:Is It Out Yet? by corky_buchek on Monday June 29, 2026 @07:05PM (#48726501)
...we still do?
Re:Is It Out Yet? by maipen on Monday June 29, 2026 @07:09PM (#48726536)
Yes, yes we do.

I like having more things to look up to.

We are in the golden age of AI. It will never be like this again.

Re:Is It Out Yet? by Brainspackle on Monday June 29, 2026 @07:03PM (#48726491)
ChatGPT 5.6 is out for some of us
Re:Is It Out Yet? by rrr_oh_man on Monday June 29, 2026 @07:09PM (#48726528)
AI slop and potential email grab scheme.
Re:Is It Out Yet? by effnorwood on Monday June 29, 2026 @06:50PM (#48726372)
not yet, but soon.
Re:Is It Out Yet? by ipython on Monday June 29, 2026 @06:11PM (#48726010)
I mean technically Fable was out... but then was pulled. I wouldn't then say "no" to "is it out yet?"
Re:Is It Out Yet? by recursive on Monday June 29, 2026 @06:20PM (#48726090)
Perhaps it should say "is it out right now?"
Re:Is It Out Yet? by 535188B17C93743 on Monday June 29, 2026 @06:29PM (#48726185)
Edit button exists but isn't clickable? Little boxes look exactly like Claude's UI.

Grade A slop.

Re:Is It Out Yet? by ChrisArchitect on Monday June 29, 2026 @09:07PM (#48727408)
Related slop humor site:

Is Fable 5 Back?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48554680