alt Hacker News"The knowledge cutoff date for Gemini 3.8 Flash is March 2026 – users can expect updated information for some domains while in others they may experience the model’s knowledge is limited to January 2025 (in line with the Gemini 3 Model Family)."
Kind of wild that they haven't (successfully) pretrained a base model since Jan-25.
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make3 • today at 3:42 AM
That extremely likely just means that they're preparing an omega huge Gemini 4 Pro release and that that's what training right now on most of the compute
I'm curious if the knowledge cutoff is important, when the interface (Gemini app) can search online for recent information. Is there a big advantage to having everything internal?