Breaking from inside Google DeepMind: Gemini 4 is almost here.
Koray Kavukcuoglu, the new head of DeepMind, gave his first big interview and dropped a real update. The model is currently in its refinement stage, meaning it exists, it works, and the team is now polishing the details before release.
He didn't hide the urgency either. Google wants this out 'as soon as possible,' well before the end of 2026, not lingering behind schedule like previous releases did.
Why does this matter? Google has looked a step slower than rivals in the frontier AI race lately. Gemini 4 is shaping up to be the moment they reclaim the spotlight.
Think of it like waiting for a phone update, except this isn't a new UI. It's an entirely new brain underneath, sharper and faster at everything it does.
The real question keeping competitors up at night: if Gemini 4 delivers on the hype, does the whole AI leaderboard just get reshuffled overnight?
🔗 Original Source & Reference: https://www.theverge.com/tech/999802/google-deepmind-gemini-4-timeline-koray-kavukcuoglu
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