Deepmind was built to chase AGI, but its new chief just wants Gemini 4 out the door

The DecoderSeptember 24, 2026en

Google Deepmind chief Koray Kavukcuoglu wants to release Gemini 4 "much earlier" than the end of the year. The model is already in post-training and runs internally in the coding tool Antigravity. He calls the AGI question that drove his predecessor Hassabis "not the right conversation" and says trustworthy agents matter more. After Gemini 3.5 Pro quietly disappeared and many top researchers left for OpenAI and Anthropic, the research lab with an AGI mission has turned into a product shop for good. The article Deepmind was built to chase AGI, but its new chief just wants Gemini 4 out the door appeared first on The Decoder .

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