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Model chronicle · Gemini
Gemini 4 Argon
Google's most capable model for complex coding, agentic, math and science tasks.
ai.google.dev (source, opens in a new tab)Gemini 3.8 Flash
ai.google.dev (source, opens in a new tab)Gemini 3.7 Flash
ai.google.dev (source, opens in a new tab)Gemini 3.6 Flash & 3.5 Flash-Lite
ai.google.dev (source, opens in a new tab)Gemini 3.5 Flash
Launched at I/O 2026 as the first Gemini 3.5 model; Google later dropped the planned 3.5 Pro.
blog.google (source, opens in a new tab)Gemma 4
ai.google.dev (source, opens in a new tab)Gemini 3.1 Pro
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview; replaced Gemini 3 Pro Preview.
ai.google.dev (source, opens in a new tab)Gemini 3 Flash
ai.google.dev (source, opens in a new tab)Gemini 3 Pro
First Gemini 3 model; shipped in Search (AI Mode) on day one, plus Gemini 3 Deep Think for testers.
blog.google (source, opens in a new tab)Gemini 2.5 Pro & 2.5 Flash (stable)
ai.google.dev (source, opens in a new tab)
Sources: company announcements & release notes.
Fact box
- HQ
- Mountain View, USA
- Founded
- 1998
- CEO
- Sundar Pichai (Google & Alphabet)
- Core products
- Gemini · Google DeepMind · Vertex AI · TPUs
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Sources: about.google, abc.xyz
Editor's picks
Deals & funding
Google · rounds, valuations, partners, acquisitions · latest 8 of 17
Partnership
Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for Colossus compute (~$30B through 2029)
Per SpaceX's SEC filing: about 110,000 NVIDIA GPUs from October 2026 to June 2029, ramping through September at a reduced fee; either side may terminate after Dec 31, 2026 with 90 days' notice (CNBC, Bloomberg).
cnbc.com (source, opens in a new tab)Partnership
Google to invest up to $40B in Anthropic ($10B now)
Google commits $10B in cash now and up to $30B more tied to performance milestones; confirmed by both companies. Before the deal Google had invested over $3B and reportedly held ~14% (CNBC, Reuters).
cnbc.com (source, opens in a new tab)Partnership
Google and Broadcom: multiple GW of next-gen TPUs for Anthropic (~3.5 GW via Broadcom from 2027)
Expands the Oct 2025 TPU deal. Broadcom's 8-K: Anthropic will access ~3.5 GW through Broadcom starting 2027. Mostly US-sited, part of Anthropic's $50B US infrastructure pledge.
anthropic.com (source, opens in a new tab)Acquisition
Google completes $32B Wiz acquisition, its largest ever
blog.google (source, opens in a new tab)Partnership
Apple picks Gemini to power new Siri and Apple Foundation Models
Multi-year deal: Gemini models and Google cloud technology underpin future Apple Foundation Models incl. a more personal Siri. Terms not disclosed; Bloomberg reported ~$1B a year.
blog.google (source, opens in a new tab)Partnership
Anthropic expands Google Cloud TPU deal to up to one million chips
anthropic.com (source, opens in a new tab)Partnership
Google Cloud wins $10B+ six-year cloud deal with Meta
reuters.com (source, opens in a new tab)Partnership
Pentagon CDAO awards Anthropic, Google and xAI contracts of up to $200M each
ai.mil (source, opens in a new tab)
All 17 rounds & deals as a table · 0 funding, 14 partnerships, 3 acquisitions
| Date | Event | Type | Counterparty / round | Amount | Valuation | Source |
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| Jun 5, 2026 | Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for Colossus compute (~$30B through 2029) Per SpaceX's SEC filing: about 110,000 NVIDIA GPUs from October 2026 to June 2029, ramping through September at a reduced fee; either side may terminate after Dec 31, 2026 with 90 days' notice (CNBC, Bloomberg). | Partnership · compute | with Google | $30B | — | cnbc.com |
| Apr 24, 2026 | Google to invest up to $40B in Anthropic ($10B now) Google commits $10B in cash now and up to $30B more tied to performance milestones; confirmed by both companies. Before the deal Google had invested over $3B and reportedly held ~14% (CNBC, Reuters). | Partnership · investment | with Anthropic | $40B | — | cnbc.com |
| Apr 6, 2026 | Google and Broadcom: multiple GW of next-gen TPUs for Anthropic (~3.5 GW via Broadcom from 2027) Expands the Oct 2025 TPU deal. Broadcom's 8-K: Anthropic will access ~3.5 GW through Broadcom starting 2027. Mostly US-sited, part of Anthropic's $50B US infrastructure pledge. | Partnership · compute | with Google, Broadcom | — | — | anthropic.com |
| Mar 11, 2026 | Google completes $32B Wiz acquisition, its largest ever All-cash deal announced March 2025 closes after US (Nov 2025) and unconditional EU (Feb 10, 2026) clearance; Wiz joins Google Cloud and keeps its brand and multicloud support. | Acquisition | acquires Wiz | $32B | — | blog.google |
| Jan 12, 2026 | Apple picks Gemini to power new Siri and Apple Foundation Models Multi-year deal: Gemini models and Google cloud technology underpin future Apple Foundation Models incl. a more personal Siri. Terms not disclosed; Bloomberg reported ~$1B a year. | Partnership · integration | with Apple | — | — | blog.google |
| Oct 23, 2025 | Anthropic expands Google Cloud TPU deal to up to one million chips Access to up to one million Google TPUs; well over a gigawatt of capacity coming online in 2026, worth tens of billions of dollars. | Partnership · compute | with Anthropic | — | — | anthropic.com |
| Aug 21, 2025 | Google Cloud wins $10B+ six-year cloud deal with Meta Meta uses Google Cloud servers, storage and networking for AI over six years (Reuters, The Information). | Partnership · cloud | with Google Cloud | $10B | — | reuters.com |
| Jul 14, 2025 | Pentagon CDAO awards Anthropic, Google and xAI contracts of up to $200M each Each award has a $200M ceiling to develop agentic AI workflows for national-security missions; OpenAI received a similar award on June 16, 2025. xAI simultaneously launched Grok for Government. | Partnership · government | with US Department of Defense (CDAO), Anthropic +1 | $600M | — | ai.mil |
| Jul 11, 2025 | Google licenses Windsurf technology and hires its leaders Google hires Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan and key staff and licenses the technology (reported $2.4B) after OpenAI's acquisition talks collapsed. | Partnership · licensing | with Windsurf | $2.4B | — | techcrunch.com |
| May 2025 | OpenAI adds Google Cloud as compute supplier Deal finalized in May 2025 (Reuters); OpenAI later listed Google Cloud among its compute suppliers and began renting Google TPUs. CoreWeave supplies part of the capacity Google resells. | Partnership · cloud | with OpenAI | — | — | reuters.com |
| Mar 18, 2025 | Google acquires Wiz for $32B Announced 18 Mar 2025; completed 11 Mar 2026. Wiz joins Google Cloud and keeps its brand. | Acquisition | acquires Wiz | $32B | — | blog.google |
| Jan 22, 2025 | Google agrees to new $1B investment in Anthropic Adds to Google's earlier $2B commitment (CNBC, Financial Times). | Partnership · investment | with Google | $1B | — | cnbc.com |
| Aug 2, 2024 | Google licenses Character.AI technology, hires its founders Non-exclusive licence to Character.AI's LLM technology; co-founders Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas join Google DeepMind. Payment reported at about $2.7B (WSJ); terms not officially disclosed. | Partnership · licensing | with Character.AI | $2.7B | — | reuters.com |
| Feb 22, 2024 | Reddit licenses its content to Google for AI training (~$60M a year) Google gets Reddit's Data API for real-time content in Search and model training; Reuters reported the deal at about $60M per year (not confirmed by the companies). | Partnership · content | with Reddit | $60M | — | blog.google |
| Oct 27, 2023 | Google agrees to invest up to $2B in Anthropic $500M upfront and $1.5B over time (WSJ/Reuters); comes a month after Amazon's up-to-$4B commitment. | Partnership · investment | with Google | $2B | — | reuters.com |
| Feb 3, 2023 | Google Cloud becomes Anthropic’s preferred cloud; Google takes ~10% stake (~$300M, reported) Anthropic trains and serves Claude on Google Cloud TPUs/GPUs. The Financial Times reported Google invested about $300M for roughly 10%. | Partnership · cloud | with Google Cloud | $300M | — | anthropic.com |
| Jan 26, 2014 | Google acquires DeepMind (reported ~$500M) London AI lab founded by Demis Hassabis, Shane Legg and Mustafa Suleyman; price not disclosed, widely reported at about $500M (£400M). Became Google DeepMind after the 2023 merger with Google Brain. | Acquisition | acquires DeepMind Technologies | $500M | — | theguardian.com |
Sources: company announcements & release notes, press reports.
Products & models
GeminiCurrent: Gemini 4 Argon ›More stories
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Gemini API: Challenges in Mixed Text-Image Outputs
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Google Gemini Deep Research: AI for Complex Tasks
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AI Assistant Leaderboard 2025: Beyond ChatGPT Downloads
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Gemini 3.0 Issues: Regressions from 2.5 Pro
Discover developer reports on Gemini 3.0’s reliability issues, including instruction failures and context bugs, contrasting with Google’s benchmarks. Explore impacts on AI workflows and trust in…
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ChatGPT vs Gemini: Essential Benchmarks for Devs & Businesses
Explore the gaps in ChatGPT vs Gemini comparisons, focusing on cost, speed, security, and long-context performance. Get insights for developers and enterprises to choose the right…
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Agentic AI Foundation: Standardizing AI Agents
The Agentic AI Foundation, backed by Google, AWS, OpenAI, and more, launches to standardize AI agents and prevent fragmentation. Discover how this collaboration boosts interoperability, security,…
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EU Antitrust Probe into Google Gemini AI | i10x Analysis
The EU launches an antitrust investigation into Google’s Gemini, examining self-preferencing and data access in generative AI. Explore how this could reshape competition, impact stakeholders, and…
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AI Search Poisoning: Scams Hijacking LLM Results
Discover how AI search poisoning exploits RAG pipelines to inject fake customer support scams into tools like Google’s AI Overview. Learn the impacts on users, brands,…
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ChatGPT’s AI Market Share: The Real Story Beyond Traffic
Uncover why ChatGPT’s 80%+ web traffic share hides slowing growth and rising competitors like Perplexity and Gemini. Explore enterprise adoption, API dominance, and the true metrics…
Models & specs
Google · context window, max output, API price, modalities, knowledge cutoff, license
| Model | Released | Context | Max output | Price in / out (per 1M) | Modalities | Knowledge cutoff | License / access | Spec source |
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| Gemini 4 Argon | Oct 13, 2026 | 1.05M | 66K | $2 / $10 cached $0.1 Promo price until 30 Nov 2026, then $4 in / $20 out. Up to 1M output with long decode. Not on free tier. | Text, image, video, audio, PDF in → text out | — | Proprietary (API & app) | ai.google.dev |
| Gemini 3.8 Flash | Sep 2, 2026 | 1.05M | 66K | $0.75 / $3.75 cached $0.075 Promo price until 31 Dec 2026, then $1.50 in / $7.50 out. | Text, image, video, audio, PDF in → text out | — | Proprietary (API & app) | ai.google.dev |
| Gemini 3.7 Flash | Aug 13, 2026 | 1.05M | 66K | $0.75 / $3.75 cached $0.075 Vertex AI list price (global), introductory until 31 Dec 2026, then $1.50/$7.50; cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/generative-ai/pricing, accessed 2026-10-22. OpenRouter lists the same. | Text, image, video, audio, PDF in → text out | — | Proprietary (API & app) | ai.google.dev |
| Gemini 3.6 Flash & 3.5 Flash-Lite Gemini 3.6 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite | Jul 21, 2026 | 1.05M | 66K | $0.75 / $3.75 cached $0.075 Promo price until 31 Dec 2026 (then $1.50/$7.50). 3.5 Flash-Lite: $0.30/$2.50. | Text, image, video, audio, PDF in → text out | — | Proprietary (API & app) | ai.google.dev |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | May 19, 2026 | 1.05M | 66K | $1.5 / $9 cached $0.15 Vertex AI list price (global endpoint), cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/generative-ai/pricing, accessed 2026-10-22; non-global $1.65/$9.90. No longer on the Gemini API pricing page. | Text, image, video, audio, PDF in → text out | — | Proprietary (API & app) | ai.google.dev |
| Gemma 4 | Apr 2, 2026 | — | — | open weights | Text, image in → text out | — | Open weights (Gemma license) 26B A4B MoE and 31B dense | ai.google.dev |
| Gemini 3.1 Pro | Feb 19, 2026 | 1.05M | 66K | $2 / $12 cached $0.2 Prompts >200K: $4 in / $18 out. | Text, image, video, audio, PDF in → text out | — | Proprietary (API & app) | ai.google.dev |
| Gemini 3 Flash | Dec 17, 2025 | 1.05M | 66K | $0.5 / $3 cached $0.05 Audio input $1.00. Batch −50%. | Text, image, video, audio, PDF in → text out | — | Proprietary (API & app) | ai.google.dev |
| Gemini 3 Pro | Nov 18, 2025 | 1.05M | 66K | $2 / $12 cached $0.2 Prompts >200K: $4 in / $18 out. Preview replaced by Gemini 3.1 Pro. | Text, image, video, audio, PDF in → text out | Jan 2025 | Proprietary (API & app) | ai.google.dev |
| Gemini 2.5 Pro & 2.5 Flash (stable) Gemini 2.5 Pro, 2.5 Flash (GA), 2.5 Flash-Lite (preview) | Jun 17, 2025 | 1.05M | 66K | $1.25 / $10 cached $0.13 2.5 Flash: $0.30/$2.50 · 2.5 Flash-Lite: $0.10/$0.40. | Text, image, video, audio, PDF in → text out | Jan 2025 | Proprietary (API & app) | ai.google.dev |
Vendor benchmark claims
- Gemini 3 Pro: Humanity's Last Exam 37.5% without tools (vendor claim) · LMArena 1501 Elo (vendor claim)
Benchmarks as published by the vendor at launch; not independently verified by i10x.
Sources: company announcements & release notes. Prices = standard API list price in USD per 1M tokens at time of release or current docs; batch is typically 50% off.