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Sundar Pichai: In three years, today's AI will look as primitive as a flip phone. The progress we're about to see will surprise people.” “We are in that rare moment in technology. The curve is so steep.” “People will look back three years from now and say, ‘You mean you couldn't do those things?’” “We are all laying the foundation for agents, but agents will be very common.” “People will be relying on them to get things done in a more seamless way.” “Any content can go from any modality to any modality. We've shown hints of it with Nano Banana, Veo, and Omni.” “It doesn't matter how the content was originally created. People can consume it in many different forms.”

Gemini 4 Carbon vs Opus 5.5 tested both with the same prompt [Voxel Floating Kingdom] • Opus 5.5: high reasoning, 1h 15m, ~$12 • Gemini 4 Carbon: high reasoning, 1h 15m, ~$0.95 at that price difference, Carbon is looking like the better deal. but which model actually did better here?

Happy Gemini 4 Hydrogen Day? Logan just posted “Gemini” again, exactly what he posted before Carbon dropped yesterday. Hydrogen could be next. here’s what we should expect based on early checkpoints tested on Arena as “gemini-3.8-flash”: > fast generation, especially for coding and big jump over 3.8 > strong 3D coding with lots of detail and creativity > much cheaper than the larger Gemini 4 models, as expected of a Flash model. if Google can deliver this level of quality at Flash speeds and pricing, it's going to be a seriously competitive model. are you excited for the Hydrogen bomb?

POV: OpenAI in the AI race after Gemini 4 Carbon and Fable 5.2 dropped

Grok 4.8 is finally coming this week Elon says the 2.5T model has finished pre-training and is now in RL and it’s a major jump over 4.7 xAI also rebuilt the RL and inference systems from scratch in C/C++, which explains the long delay the model is set to begin rolling out to Grok Bot users later this week one question: will it be on par with Opus 5.5 when it drops?

the Anthropic effect is already kicking in less than 24 hours after Fable 5.2 launched, Gemini team is already back to vague posting. Carbon has already appeared in Google Cloud’s billing catalog, and new Hydrogen checkpoints have been testing on Arena for days now. the timing is interesting. we might see wider Carbon access or Gemini 4 Flash sooner than expected.

Happy Qwen 4 Day to those who celebrate? the Qwen team just posted a teaser, and it looks like Qwen 4 is finally about to drop. the signs have been there to see for weeks: - Alibaba confirmed Max, Plus, Flash and 27B last month - Qwen 4 checkpoints on Arena: (Kalmia, Kerria, Kentia) - Qwen Code added Qwen 4 Max, Plus and Coder references - last Thursday, Alibaba's CTO even said "Qwen 4 next week" the checkpoints on Arena were impressive. I’m really curious to see how the final models perform, especially the open-weight 27B. we should expect announcements anytime soon, are you looking forward to this launch?

Introducing GPT-6 Cyber, OpenAI’s new cybersecurity model. it’s the same model behind yesterday’s Linux kernel research, where it helped • find 948 vulnerabilities could let hackers gain access • reproduced over 1,700 security flaws • generated patches to fix them with all the hacks we’ve been seeing lately, this is a much needed release and we really need more cyber models but, when are we getting GPT-6.2 Astra and 6.2 Sol?