Google Moves Gemini 4 Into Post-Training as It Targets a 2026 Release

Google DeepMind SVP and Chief AI Architect Koray Kavukcuoglu said Gemini 4 has entered early post-training and that Google wants an early output well before the end of 2026, moving its next flagship model from a training promise to a release watch. The update gives Google a clearer timetable at a moment when developers are watching whether the company can return to the frontier-model cadence set by OpenAI and Anthropic.