Google is shipping Gemini models faster than its AI safety reports

More than two years after Google was caught flat-footed by the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the company has dramatically picked up the pace. In late March, Google launched an AI reasoning model, Gemini 2.5 Pro, that leads the industry on several benchmarks measuring coding and math capabilities. That launch came just three months after the tech giant debuted another model, Gemini 2.0 Flash, that was state-of-the-art for the time. Google’s Director and Head of Product for Gemini, Tulsee Doshi, told TechCrunch in an interview that the increasing cadence of the company’s model launches is part of a concerted effort to keep up with the rapidly evolving AI industry. “We’re still trying to figure out what the right way to put these models out is — what the right way is to get feedback,” said Doshi. But the ramped-up release time frame appears to have come at a cost. Google has yet to publish safety reports for its latest models, including Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 2.0 Flash, raising conc ... Read full article.