DeepMind's new chief drops AGI talk, wants Gemini 4 out early this year
The Decoder · rss · 2026-09-24
Google DeepMind chief Koray Kavukcuoglu says Gemini 4 will ship "much earlier" than year-end; the model is already in post-training and runs internally in the coding tool Antigravity.
Key points:
- He calls the AGI question that drove predecessor Demis Hassabis "not the right conversation," prioritizing trustworthy agents instead.
- Gemini 3.5 Pro quietly disappeared and many top researchers have left for OpenAI and Anthropic.
- The takeaway: the lab founded to chase AGI has turned into a product shop for good.
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