alt Hacker NewsMy Gemini app (updated today) and https://gemini.google.com/ has _3.6_ as the latest selectable model, as a paying Pro user in the US. How is that even possible? Gemini 3.7 was released in August, 3.8 early September. What is going on over there?
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just Google being whatever the fuck it's been for the past 15 years.
Same here. But if you install the Antigravity CLI and log in with the same Google account you can select both Gemini 3.7 Flash and 3.8 Flash. Crazy.
I was reading the announcement and wondering the same. And don't forget, still with 3.1 Pro as the frontier model.
Indeed. They have this amazing model and you can’t access it in their own branded app. It’s insane.
Is this something you've tried to figure out? I'd love to hear more from you here. Are you sure you're not just on a Plus plan? How much are you paying monthly? Are you sure it's the AI pro plan? What does Google One say? https://one.google.com/
That's weird. I got 3.8 and 3.7 on the days they were released. https://imgur.com/a/Xu4wRLM (this is on gemini.google.com, but the same is true of the iOS app and the desktop app).
I would imagine you are experiencing a bug. I've been using 3.8 daily since its release (on a Pro plan in Canada). I believe this is true of many people.
What is your reason to believe this is not a bug specific to a small set of Pro users?
I'm a Pro user as well and I've been using Gemini 3.8 for a few weeks now. Not sure why you're not seeing 3.8 available.
they moved it from the place you'd expect to ai.studio
Same for me, 3.6 in Gemini Chat, and 3.8 available same day as it was announced in AI Studio using the same account.
This is why I've heard you should just use openrouter for these models. Whatever google is doing/hiring for the dev ux is doing a terrible job.
In my consumer gmail account with Pro, I see:
In both a paid Google Workspace account (without the AI addon) and a free 'GSuite' account, I see: