DeepMind says Gemini 4 has entered post-training and will ship “much earlier” than end of 2026
Partly confirmed
Status
- Claim
Partly confirmed
- Our reporting
- Medium confidence
- Importance
- 3 of 5
- Last verified
- 29 September 2026
Your AI and this story
- GPT-6 Astra146 days after its cutoff
- Claude Opus 5.585 days after its cutoff
- Gemini 4 Hydrogen176 days after its cutoff
- Grok 4.7115 days after its cutoff
None of these four assistants can know about it. The closest, Claude Opus 5.5, stops 85 days before it.
Key facts
- Kavukcuoglu: ‘Our intention is to, like, as soon as possible, to release an early post-training output because we see the results and we are excited.’
- Plan: phased rollout starting with an early version, then iterative improvements
- Gemini 4 pre-training was first confirmed by Google on 2026-07-21
- Gemini 3.5 Pro, announced at I/O for June 2026, still unreleased as of late Sept 2026
What happened
Speaking publicly for the first time since taking over DeepMind, Kavukcuoglu said Gemini 4 had entered post-training and would be released early and improved iteratively.
Why it matters
Signals Google’s response to GPT-6 and Anthropic’s latest models after months of Flash-only releases. Exact event date is inferred (the summit was “Wednesday” before Dataconomy’s 25 Sept report = 23 Sept); release date for Gemini 4 not yet known.
Sources
4 sources from 4 sites. Numbers match the chips in the text.
4 sources: 4 press
Press
- Dataconomy: DeepMind says Gemini 4 is coming much earlier than expecteddataconomy.com, press
- GuruFocus: Google’s DeepMind nears launch of Gemini 4gurufocus.com, press
- Yahoo Finance: Gemini 4 enters post-trainingfinance.yahoo.com, press
- The Information: Google nears release of flagship Gemini 4 AI modeltheinformation.com, press
Changes
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