Gemini 3.5 Pro

Quick warning before you renew, upgrade, or commit to anything AI this weekend...

Today is the single most loaded day on the 2026 AI calendar.

Gemini 3.5 Pro has a leaked launch target of TODAY.

Six weeks late. And not because they were lazy...

Reports say they scrapped the entire base model and rebuilt it from scratch.

If the leaks hold, here's what's coming:

🧠 A 2-MILLION-token context window... Double anything else on the frontier
💰 Rumored pricing near $1.25 in / $10 out... Undercutting GPT-5.6 Sol
🔒 A "Deep Think" reasoning mode... Locked behind a $250/month Ultra tier

There it is again. 😏

First Anthropic rationed Fable. Now Google's putting its best thinking behind a velvet rope.

The flagship-behind-a-paywall era is officially here.

Now the honest caveat...

Google has NOT confirmed the date. No model card, no pricing page as of this morning.

They've missed dates before. They might again today.

And for the poetry fans... IF it drops today, it lands the exact day Xi Jinping opens the Shanghai World AI Conference. In person. First time ever.

The West's biggest model and the East's biggest AI power move... Same day. 🌏

This stopped being a tech race a while ago.

But here's what it means for YOUR wallet...

Grok reset the floor at $2/$6. Sol answered. Gemini's about to counter.

Every shot fired makes intelligence cheaper for you.

So if you were about to lock in an annual plan or a big API commitment... Sit tight 72 hours.

Committing this weekend is like buying a TV the day before Black Friday. 📺

Let the billionaires finish fighting.

As for me... The second it drops, it goes straight into the bake-off.

Same prompt I gave Codex, Claude Code, and Grok for Emberbound.

Let's see if 2 million tokens of context can actually cook. 👨‍🍳

Did You Know?

A 2-million-token context window fits roughly 1.5 million words...

Enough to paste the ENTIRE Harry Potter series into a single prompt...

With room left over for The Hobbit. 📚

🗞️ The Tip AI News 🗞️

Every AI lab just got a report card... And the best grade was a C+ 😬

The Future of Life Institute released its 2026 AI Safety Index this week.

They graded every frontier lab on safety practices.

The results...

🥇 Anthropic: C+ ... The valedictorian of this class, apparently
📉 OpenAI and Google DeepMind: C
📉 Meta: D+
💀 xAI, DeepSeek, and Mistral: effectively failed

Sit with that.

The companies building the most powerful technology in human history...

And the BEST safety grade on Earth is a C+.

Nobody made honor roll. 😅

Here's my takeaway...

Nobody is going to manage this risk FOR you.

Not the labs, not the report cards... And definitely not a velvet rope.

The person responsible for what AI does inside your business... Is you.

Map your fallbacks... Cap your costs... And check outputs before they ever touch a customer.

Yeah, it's boring.

But you've watched this newsletter long enough to know...

Boring is what keeps you running. 🫡

Over to You...

Have a great weekend...

Somewhere in Mountain View, an engineer is NOT having one. 😂

Jeff J. Hunter 
Founder, AI Persona Method | TheTip.ai

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