Google closed Jeff Dean's account. Gemini 3.5 Pro is still 'soon.'

The June slide said the flagship would ship that month. The July post said partners were testing it. August took the chief scientist, the Gemini co-lead, and the DeepMind CEO’s operating job. The playlist from the old Research all-hands died with the corp login.

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Why it matters

Google's response to a missed flagship deadline has been organizational and commercial: put an operator over Gemini, ship cheaper Flash models faster, and back the marquee researchers leaving to build outside Google.

A blurred reflection of a corporate building and faint music player interface in wet asphalt, under desaturated night lights.
Jeff Dean in 2020, posting “Jeff’s C++ Bangers,” a playlist colleagues made for a Google Research all-hands
Dean’s 2020 post. The playlist link died with his google.com account. Source: Jeff Dean on X

On August 14th, nine days after he left Google, Jeff Dean went looking for a playlist.

He had posted it in 2020 for a Google Research all-hands. Colleagues had made it as a joke and a gift: “Jeff’s C++ Bangers.” The link was dead.…

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