Google DeepMind says Gemini 4 is in refinement and nearing release
In his first media interview as DeepMind leader, Koray Kavukcuoglu said Gemini 4 is in a refinement stage and that Google aims to release an early post-training output 'much earlier' than the end of 2026. The comments follow a leadership change at DeepMind and come after Google’s last flagship, Gemini 3 (Nov 2025); competitors OpenAI (GPT-6) and Anthropic (Mythos) have released newer models.