Google reportedly delays Gemini 3.5 Pro by months
Internal testing showed shortfalls in coding and long-horizon reasoning; it stays in limited enterprise preview. The two-horse frontier race just got lonelier at the front.
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Sol is the flagship with a new Ultra subagent mode, Terra delivers GPT-5.5-level quality at half the cost, and Luna is the fast tier. $1–$5 per million input tokens, 1M context, partly served on Cerebras hardware.
Why it matters
Frontier-quality tokens just got cheap enough to waste. When capability stops being the constraint, workflow design becomes the whole game — which is exactly where most teams are furthest behind.
Internal testing showed shortfalls in coding and long-horizon reasoning; it stays in limited enterprise preview. The two-horse frontier race just got lonelier at the front.
Moonshot's model wins 76% of matchups. The open-weight frontier keeps compressing the gap on exactly the tasks that used to justify closed-model pricing.
A 1.5T-parameter coding-focused mixture-of-experts at $2/$6 per million tokens — aggressive pricing aimed squarely at the same developers OpenAI courted two days later.
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