Overview
- Koray Kavukcuoglu told reporters Wednesday at The Information’s AI Agenda Live Summit that Gemini 4 is in post-training and that Google intends to release an early post-training build as soon as possible.
- The announcement was Kavukcuoglu’s first public comment since he took over DeepMind after Demis Hassabis stepped down in August and signals a leadership-driven push to speed releases.
- Google has not shipped a flagship model since the Gemini 3 series in November 2025 and rivals OpenAI (GPT-6) and Anthropic (Mythos) have launched newer models that are reported to outperform Gemini 3.
- Investors reacted to the update with short-term selling of Alphabet shares, and analysts say the model’s initial performance data will be the decisive factor for market confidence in Google’s AI strategy.
- What to watch next are the early performance and safety metrics when the first build ships, enterprise uptake of the new model, and how quickly Google follows the debut with iterative updates.