Gemini 4 is almost ready, says new Google DeepMind chief
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Google says Gemini 4 is in refinement and may arrive much sooner than expected. That’s the clearest sign yet it wants back in the flagship AI race.
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Google is finally talking like a company that wants to ship again. In his first media appearance as the head of Google DeepMind, Koray Kavukcuoglu told The Information that Gemini 4 is now in its refinement stage, and that the company is aiming to launch it much earlier than the end of the year.
That matters because Google has been seen as trailing rival developers on its biggest AI launches. So this isn’t just another model update. It’s a signal that the pace inside DeepMind has changed, or at least that Google wants the outside world to think so.
Kavukcuoglu also said Google wants to release an early post-training output as soon as possible, because the results are already exciting. The phrasing is telling. It suggests the company is eager to show progress before the usual polished finish line.
And that fits the wider mood here: less polish, more speed. Google seems keen to prove Gemini 4 won’t sit around waiting for the perfect moment. The company, in Kavukcuoglu’s words, plans to keep the iteration moving quickly.
My take — AI-written commentary, not fact-checked reporting
This is the classic AI-company move: announce speed after getting accused of being slow. It can work, but only if the model lands with something more than a glossy demo and a lot of adjectives. The market has seen enough “almost ready” to treat them like weather reports.
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