Demis Hassabis announces Gemini 4 Carbon, SOTA across key benchmarks
AravSrinivas · x · 2026-10-29
- Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis announced Gemini 4 Carbon, saying the team is "iterating at lightning speed" and that the model is SOTA across key benchmarks.
- It reportedly combines frontier capabilities with deep safety & security research.
- Perplexity CEO Arav Srinivas publicly congratulated Hassabis, reflecting industry attention on the release.
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