DeepMind chief hints Gemini 4 lands before year-end, says Google is "certainly at the frontier"
koraykv · x · 2026-09-24
Jessica Lessin interviewed Koray Kavukcuoglu at The Information's AI Summit — his first since taking over all of Google DeepMind. Key takeaways: Gemini 4 is coming soon (body language suggested before end of year) and he claims Google is "certainly at the frontier"; he sees no need to slow down, arguing safety is always built in lockstep, and went deep on chain-of-thought work when pressed about looped transformers; and he remains a firm believer in Google's continued TPU hardware advantage. Full video to come.
Related event: DeepMind says Gemini 4 is in post-training, launch ahead of year-end(3 posts)→
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