Google DeepMind

AGI by pushing several fronts at once, across Gemini frontier models, agents, coding, robotics and world models, with science (AlphaFold, Isomorphic) as proof points. New leadership is tilting toward frontier LLM performance and developer tooling, and Hassabis proposes a US frontier-AI standards body.

Founded
2010
Headquarters
London, UK (and Mountain View, CA)
Founders
Demis Hassabis, Shane Legg, Mustafa Suleyman
Now
Kavukcuoglu replaced Hassabis as head on 2026-08-05 after no frontier-leading release since early 2026; Dean, Ghemawat, Le and Vinyals left (Discovery Loop). Gemini 4 Argon announced 2026-09-30 in limited release.

Key people

  • Koray Kavukcuoglu (head of DeepMind since 2026-08, reports to Pichai)
  • Demis Hassabis (chair)
  • Shane Legg
  • Oriol Vinyals (left for Discovery Loop)
  • Jeff Dean (left for Discovery Loop)
  • David Silver (left for Ineffable Intelligence)

Latest launches

  • SynthID Detector Google · 7 October 2026
    Google opened a public SynthID Detector website that checks images, video and audio for SynthID watermarks from Google, OpenAI, Nvidia and Kakao, with Apple support promised soon.
  • EmbeddingGemma 2 6 October 2026
    Google DeepMind released EmbeddingGemma 2, an open 740M parameter embedding model built on Gemma 4 that maps text, code, images, video and audio into one 768-dimensional space.
  • Nano Banana 2.1 6 October 2026
    Google released Nano Banana 2.1, a Flash-tier image generation and editing model with better mask and ink editing, product recontextualization and factual accuracy, now on…
  • Gemini free tier change Google · 6 October 2026
    Google will limit free Gemini users to the Flash Lite model from October 9, and the $4.99 AI Plus plan will lose Gemini Pro access.
  • Project Suncatcher prototype satellite Google · 1 October 2026
    Google launched a prototype satellite with four TPUs into low Earth orbit with Planet, the first in-orbit test of its space-based AI computing research project.
  • Gemini 4 Argon 30 September 2026
    Gemini 4 Argon, a new frontier model with a 1M-token output limit, scores 77.9% on DeepSWE v1.1; released first to vetted cyber defenders via Fairwind.
  • SynthID Bio 30 September 2026
    SynthID Bio is a proof of concept for watermarking AI-generated proteins in the sequence itself while preserving function in lab tests.
  • Gemini 3.8 Live and Live Extended Thinking Google · 15 September 2026
    Gemini 3.8 Live and Live Extended Thinking are audio-to-audio models for voice agents, with 97.7% on Big Bench Audio and background reasoning mid-conversation.

Launches by year

170 launches and papers since 26 January 2023, oldest first within each year.

2026 53
Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), Project Genie, Aletheia math research agent (Gemini Deep Think), Gemini 3 Deep Think upgrade (Feb 2026), Lyria 3 in the Gemini app, Gemini 3.1 Pro, Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image), Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, Gemini Embedding 2, Measuring Progress Toward AGI: A Cognitive Taxonomy, Gemini 3.1 Flash Live, Veo 3.1 Lite, Gemma 4 (E2B, E4B, 26B MoE, 31B), Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6, Deep Research and Deep Research Max, TPU 8t and TPU 8i (eighth-generation TPUs), Decoupled DiLoCo, AI co-clinician, Gemini Omni Flash, Flow Music and Lyria 3 Pro, Managed Agents in the Gemini API (Antigravity Agent), Gemini Spark, Gemini Omni (Omni Flash), Gemini for Science, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Google Antigravity 2.0, NotebookLM upgrade with cloud computer (becomes Gemini Notebook), Gemma 4 12B, Gemini 3.5 Live Translate, DiffusionGemma, AI Control Roadmap (securing internal systems), AlphaEvolve on Google Cloud (general availability), Gemini 3.6 Flash and Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, Lyria 3.5, Gemini Robotics 2 and Robotics-ER 2, DiffusionGemma technical report, WeatherNext cyclone model (Nature) and open-sourced code and weights, Gemini 3.7 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Transcribe and Transcribe Live, Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, Double-blind AI evaluation pilot, Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber (Fairwind Program), WeatherNext 3, AlphaGenome Atlas, Gemini 3.8 Live and Live Extended Thinking, SynthID Bio, Gemini 4 Argon, Project Suncatcher prototype satellite, Gemini free tier change, Nano Banana 2.1, EmbeddingGemma 2, SynthID Detector
2025 55
Gemini 2.0 Flash GA, 2.0 Pro Experimental, 2.0 Flash-Lite, AI co-scientist, Gemma 3 (1B, 4B, 12B, 27B), Gemini Robotics and Gemini Robotics-ER, Gemini 2.0 Flash native image generation (experimental), Gemini 2.5 Pro (Experimental), Ironwood (TPU v7), Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol, DolphinGemma, Gemini 2.5 Flash, AlphaEvolve, Veo 3, Lyria 2 and Lyria RealTime, Imagen 4, Gemini Diffusion, Flow, AI Mode in Google Search, Gemini 2.5 Flash and Pro GA; 2.5 Flash-Lite preview, Gemini Robotics On-Device, Gemini CLI, AlphaGenome, Gemma 3n (E2B, E4B), MedGemma 27B Multimodal and MedSigLIP, Google licenses Windsurf tech, hires its CEO, Chain of Thought Monitorability: A New and Fragile Opportunity, Gemini Deep Think at IMO 2025 (gold-medal score), Aeneas, AlphaEarth Foundations, Gemini 2.5 Deep Think, Genie 3, Jules (general availability), Gemma 3 270M, Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image), EmbeddingGemma, VaultGemma, Gemini 2.5 Deep Think at ICPC World Finals, Gemini Robotics 1.5 and Robotics-ER 1.5, CodeMender, Gemini 2.5 Computer Use, Gemini Enterprise, Veo 3.1 and Veo 3.1 Fast, Cell2Sentence-Scale 27B (C2S-Scale), Mathematical exploration and discovery at scale (AlphaEvolve), Nested Learning (Hope architecture), AlphaProof methodology in Nature, SIMA 2, WeatherNext 2, Gemini 3 Pro, Google Antigravity, Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image), Gemini 3 Deep Think, FACTS Benchmark Suite, Deep Research agent in the Gemini API (Interactions API), Gemini 3 Flash, Gemma Scope 2
2024 41
AlphaGeometry, Lumiere, Imagen 2 in Bard, ImageFX and Search, Gemini 1.0 Ultra and Gemini Advanced (Bard renamed Gemini), Gemini 1.5 Pro, Gemma (2B, 7B), Genie (generative interactive environments), SIMA, RecurrentGemma (Griffin architecture), Med-Gemini, AlphaFold 3, Veo, Trillium (TPU v6e), Project Astra, PaliGemma, Imagen 3, Gemini 1.5 Flash, AI Overviews in Google Search, Gemma 2 (9B, 27B), AlphaProof and AlphaGeometry 2 (IMO 2024 silver), Large Language Monkeys (repeated sampling), Gemma Scope, Gemma 2 2B and ShieldGemma, Scaling LLM Test-Time Compute Optimally (Snell et al.), Imagen 3 technical report, Gemini Live, AlphaProteo, NotebookLM Audio Overviews, Gemini 1.5 Pro-002 and Flash-002, AlphaChip, AlphaQubit, PaliGemma 2, Genie 2, GenCast, Project Mariner, Jules (experimental), Gemini 2.0 Flash (experimental), Gemini Deep Research, Veo 2, Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking (experimental), Titans: Learning to Memorize at Test Time
2023 21
MusicLM, PaLM-E, Bard, PaLM 2, Med-PaLM 2, AlphaDev, RoboCat, NotebookLM, RT-2, SynthID (images), AlphaMissense, Open X-Embodiment / RT-X, GraphCast, Lyria and Dream Track, GNoME, Cloud TPU v5p, Gemini 1.0 (Ultra, Pro, Nano), AlphaCode 2, Imagen 2 (Vertex AI), FunSearch, VideoPoet

People moves

Of the moves the atlas tracks, 8 joined and 23 left, and 2 changed roles inside it.

Sources

  1. cnbc.com/2026/08/12/google-deepmind-koray-kavukcuoglu.html
  2. blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-4-argon/
  3. blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/ai/google-ai-updates-september-2026/
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  9. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_DeepMind

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