What Google has teased about Gemini 4

In the past week, Google has teased quite a bit about Gemini 4, as 3.5 Pro missed its June launch.

The first mention of the unsurprisingly named “Gemini 4” coincided with the announcement of Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber. As Google tests Gemini 3.5 Pro with partners ahead of a launch “as soon as it’s ready,” work on the “next generation of models” is underway. Specifically, this is the company’s “most ambitious pre-training run yet.”

At the Alphabet Q2 2026 earnings call, Sundar Pichai reiterated that Google is “excited by the progress we are seeing at the frontier.”

During the Q&A portion with analysts, the CEO was asked about his “confidence level that the Gemini models can remain at the frontier.”

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Pichai explicitly said Google is “both very committed and very confident of being at the frontier.” Furthermore: “We want to compete at the frontier level of where the frontier will be when Gemini 4 comes out, and so we are applying a lot of our compute and effort in that direction.”

A separate question asked Pichai how Google is balancing internal and external customer demand for Tensor Processing Units (TPUs):

The closest we got to specifics this week was that Gemini 4 will need a “larger base model to compete at that frontier model.”

Based on past releases, Gemini 4 should launch in November or December. 

Pichai also said to expect continued iteration on the Gemini 3.x Flash models “with further progress in agentic coding, et cetera.” Specifically, Google is targeting “releasing models almost at a monthly cadence.”