Google DeepMind’s next frontier model, Gemini 4, is almost ready and should arrive well before the end of 2026, The Verge reports. New DeepMind chief Koray Kavukcuoglu reportedly said the model is in refinement and that early post-training results are encouraging. Google has not announced a release date, access tiers, pricing or performance benchmarks, so the report establishes a late-stage development update rather than a finished product launch.