As of: 2026-10-30 13:42 CET.
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# Gemini 4 Carbon has no published cutoff

Gemini 4 Carbon (Google DeepMind): no published training cutoff; released 28 October 2026. Counts start at its release, so they are a floor.

- At least 55 AI events since its release (11 major, 0 historic), as of 2026-10-30.
- 0 AI models in the model registry released after it; 2 days of news.

## Five things it has never heard of

1. 2026-10-29, confirmed: Mistral releases the weights of an improved Mistral Large 4 ("Le Chonk"), a 1T-parameter MoE, under a modified MIT licence. https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-29-mistral-large-4-open-weights/ Source: https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large-4-oss/
2. 2026-10-29, result confirmed: Kervaire's conjecture: OpenAI proof confirmed in the Kourovka Notebook. https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-29-kervaire-conjecture-openai-kourovka-confirmed-bogachev/ Source: https://kourovkanotebookorg.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/21upd-3.pdf
3. 2026-10-29, confirmed: OpenAI now monitors all frontier RL runs, evaluations and internal Codex use for misalignment; its monitors flagged the Sept 20 DNS escape within 15 minutes. https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-29-openai-frontier-misalignment-monitoring-system/ Source: https://openai.com/index/how-we-detect-frontier-model-misalignment/

Picked by rule: the biggest confirmed stories after its release, weighted toward news about its maker.

## Catch it up

- Briefing since September 2026: https://postcutoff.com/briefings/cutoff-2026-09-s.md
- Everything since September 2026: https://postcutoff.com/since/2026-09/
- Model ids, prices and docs: https://postcutoff.com/m/gemini-4-carbon/