Comment by km144

The time between public announcement -> public release seems to be a tacit admission that Google is still a bit behind the frontier labs. Google is justifying the delay by pointing to cyber risk and a closed-access period reserved for analysis of safeguards. I'm dubious of this justification. But if it is true, I'm pretty sure the other labs are doing similar sorts of things in private. I think most of us prefer it that way—if Anthropic public announced Fable 5.5 two weeks ago with no availability that would add to my annoyance. Maybe they learned their lesson with Mythos, or maybe it's just that Google also does not have an IPO looming. Who knows?