[Rumor: Google's new Pro model's first checkpoint emerges, may be released in October] Beating AI News reports that leaker lyra claims Google's next Pro model already has its first checkpoint (a saved model state during training) and is expected to be publicly released in October. Lyra also predicts that a new Flash-Lite will arrive in September, along with an update to Nano Banana 2 Lite. However, the final name of the new Pro model has not been decided yet. Some in the community speculate it could be Gemini 4 Pro, while others believe it might be another Pro version. [Original link]