Why do you assume that Gemini doesn't have these knowledge cut-offs?
If I ask Gemini, for example "Give me three important events that happened during May 13, year 2023.", then it says that this is "in the future" and responds that it can provide some guesses "Based on publicly available information from early February 2023", so that probably is the cut-off date for the model.
However, I would assume that (just like Bing) for certain questions it can pull in extra information from web searches - the model can be old, but if the system puts some retrieved document(s) in the prompt context so that the model can use them for generating the response, it can use that (limited) fresh information as well.
I might have been a stupid assumtion indeed but I assumed it based on the fact that Gemini does not respond with the same shit chatGPT says regarding its knowledge cut-off.
If I ask Gemini, for example "Give me three important events that happened during May 13, year 2023.", then it says that this is "in the future" and responds that it can provide some guesses "Based on publicly available information from early February 2023", so that probably is the cut-off date for the model.
However, I would assume that (just like Bing) for certain questions it can pull in extra information from web searches - the model can be old, but if the system puts some retrieved document(s) in the prompt context so that the model can use them for generating the response, it can use that (limited) fresh information as well.