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Sundar Pichai / Google CEO
Confirmed Gemini 4 pre-training publicly and on Alphabet's Q2 2026 earnings call, set expectations for a much larger frontier base model, and signaled a faster release cadence for Flash-tier models.
Developed and shipped the three new Gemini models and the Gemini 4 pre-training run; owns CodeMender, the agent that will exclusively wield Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber for vulnerability hunting.
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Logan Kilpatrick (Google)
Publicly confirmed the team is testing Gemini 3.5 Pro with partners and hopes to ship it soon, and confirmed the Gemini 4 pre-training run began, per TechCrunch reporting.
Cited as competitive pressure driving Google's faster Flash-tier release cadence; reportedly shipped GPT-5.4 just two days after GPT-5.3.
Competing frontier lab; Google reportedly told Meta it could not supply all the Gemini compute capacity it wanted, disrupting Meta's internal AI projects, while Meta has been hiring Google AI researchers.
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Alphabet investors / Wall Street analysts
Reacted to the Gemini 3.5 Pro delay with a roughly 4% stock dip despite a strong Q2 2026 earnings beat, though most tracked analysts kept Buy or Strong Buy ratings.