Google plans Gemini 4 release before year-end
Google's Gemini 4 is in post-training and shipping before year-end—potentially October. That's a response to OpenAI's three frontier-model updates since November.
Why it matters
Google is accelerating its frontier-model cadence after a visible gap versus OpenAI and Anthropic. Gemini 4 before year-end signals DeepMind is re-prioritizing high-end capability over the lower-tier models that dominated 2025–early 2026.
The key facts
5 to knowGemini 4 in post-training phase; release target before year-end 2026, possibly October
Koray Kavukcuoglu (new head of Google DeepMind business unit) made the disclosure at The Information's AI Agenda Live Summit
Gemini 3.5 Pro delayed to May 2026 developer conference; only one update since November 2025 launch
Contrast: OpenAI released GPT 5.5 Pro, GPT 5.6 Astro, GPT 6 Astro in same timeframe; Anthropic also multi-updated its flagship Claude
Google's 2025–mid-2026 focus was on Gemini Flash models for routine tasks, not frontier capability
The story so far
Earlier coverage of this storyline
- Google’s Gemini Can Now Make Calls for You on Pixel PhonesWired AI
- Google tests letting Gemini call businesses for youTechCrunch AI
- This story
Go to the source
Computerworldcomputerworld.com
Publisher excerpt: Google’s Gemini 4 AI model is in the early days of post-training, the phase in which a base AI model is refined to behave reliably, and should be released “much earlier” than the end of this year, Google DeepMind head Koray Kavukcuoglu told The Information at its AI Agenda Live Summit. Some Google…