Deepmind Chief: Current Models 'Below Frontier' but Will Lead Again
The Decoder · rss · 2026-09-02
New Google Deepmind chief Koray Kavukcuoglu admits Google's current models are "a little bit below the frontier" but states he is "100% certain that we will be at the frontier." He emphasizes that frontier AI leadership is the only thing that matters, offering no concrete news to back the claim.
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