Given how competitive the space is any form of waiting seems like it has more downside than upside to me.

If you have the new "best" model you may only have a few weeks of time in the market before some other lab releases a new model that beats yours.

This means you should get it out ASAP so you can maximize the time during which your model is "best". Once your model isn't best any more you're going to lose a lot of revenue to the new leader.