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Google DeepMind leaders discuss Gemini 3.7 Flash and Gemini 4 pre-training

September 1, 2026 at 15:12 EDT

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Google DeepMind SVP Koray Kavukcuoglu joined Logan Kilpatrick on the latest Release Notes episode to discuss Gemini 3.7 Flash, the company’s Gemini 4 pre-training run, and how Google is trying to stay at the frontier of AI research. The conversation lands weeks after Google shipped Gemini 3.7 Flash, a coding- and agent-focused update that arrived only three weeks after Gemini 3.6 Flash.

Sep 2026 · Google DeepMind

Flash now, Gemini 4 in training

Koray Kavukcuoglu and Logan Kilpatrick recap Gemini 3.7 Flash—the coding workhorse shipped three weeks after 3.6 Flash—and Google’s most ambitious Gemini 4 pre-training run yet.

3 wk

3.6 to 3.7 Flash gap

$0.75

Intro / 1M input tokens

65.3%

DeepSWE v1.1 vs ~49%

Token context window

Input price: intro vs list (same unit, $/1M)

$0.75

Intro through 2026

$1.50

From Jan 1, 2027

Introductory rate is half the original 3.6 Flash list price; the $1.50 / $7.50 list returns in 2027.

DeepSWE v1.1 (long-horizon coding)

~49%

3.6 Flash

65.3%

3.7 Flash

What users like

Cheaper agent loops, stronger first-pass code, and a 1M context window in production APIs.

Still open

Composite scores trail some rivals; Gemini 4 has no public date, size, or benchmarks.

Two tracks at once

Algorithmic Flash updates on a near-monthly cadence, plus a larger Gemini 4 base model already in pre-training. Coding and agents are named as the next-generation priorities.

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