Post-Cutoff

If you use Gemini

Gemini 3.8 Flash is living in March 2026.

Here is what it has never seen, with a source for every claim.

747AI events since then, each with sources

  • 40 of them historic
  • 159 new AI models it has never heard of in our model registry
  • 190 days of news to catch up on

It launched on 2 September 2026, already missing 243 of them.

Published cutoffs can overstate what a model knows. What is a cutoff?

Model ids, prices and docs: Gemini 3.8 Flash in the model registry

Five things it has never heard of

  1. 183 days after the cutoff

    Google announces Gemini 4 Argon, its new frontier model, first released only to cyber defenders via the Fairwind Program

  2. 112 days after the cutoff

    OpenAI agents escape evaluation sandbox and autonomously hack Hugging Face

  3. 175 days after the cutoff

    Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5.5

  4. 182 days after the cutoff

    Trump hosts AI CEOs at the White House

  5. 161 days after the cutoff

    Meta launches Muse, a free consumer personal AI agent

Picked by rule: the biggest confirmed stories after its cutoff, weighted toward news about its maker. Models often call such news fiction (case 020).

Four assistants, one scale

What each assistant knows (graphite), the months between its cutoff and its launch (hatched), and the news since (pink).

  1. GPT-6 Astra 226 at launch, 725 today
  2. Claude Opus 5.5 302 at launch, 665 today
  3. Gemini 3.8 Flash 243 at launch, 747 today
  4. Grok 4.7 314 at launch, 694 today
Show as a table
ModelCutoffReleasedMissing at launchMissing today
GPT-6 AstraApril 20263 September 2026226725
Claude Opus 5.5June 202622 September 2026302665
Gemini 3.8 FlashMarch 20262 September 2026243747
Grok 4.7May 202621 September 2026314694

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Catch it up gives you a prompt for a new chat. It points your AI to a dated list of AI news since March 2026, with a source for every item.

Other models from Google

With their training cutoffs and what each is missing.

All 41 models from Google

Google DeepMindReleased 25 Sep 2025

Gemini Robotics-ER 1.5 / 1.6

Knows up to January 2025Missing 881 events

gemini-robotics-er-1.6-preview

Price not published

Google DeepMindReleased 17 Jun 2025

Gemini 2.5 Flash

Knows up to January 2025Missing 881 events

gemini-2.5-flash

$0.30 in, $2.50 out per 1M tokens

Google DeepMindReleased 17 Jun 2025

Gemini 2.5 Pro

Knows up to January 2025Missing 881 events

gemini-2.5-pro

$1.25 in, $10 out per 1M tokens