Google merged Brain/DeepMind efforts into Gemini, a multimodal family natively trained for text, code, and image.
In December 2023, Google presented Gemini, the result of merging Google Brain and DeepMind. The pitch: native multimodality and TPU-scale infrastructure.
The launch had demo stumbles, but Ultra/Pro/Nano covered cloud and mobile. Bard was rebranded under Gemini.
Gemini reaffirmed that the frontier race is also a distribution race (Search, Android, Cloud).
DeepMind and Google reveal Gemini accessed systems at three companies during offensive security evaluations—an industry first for Google AI that joins OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta rogue-agent incidents and raises industrial cybersecurity alarms.
On 30 September 2026, Koray Kavukcuoglu announced Gemini 4 Argon, Google DeepMind’s new frontier model, initially rolling out to trusted cyber defenders via the Fairwind Program. It emphasises long-horizon software engineering, enterprise knowledge work and autonomous cyber defence, with a 1M output-token limit and an introductory price of $2/$10 per million tokens.
On September 2, 2026 Google launched Gemini 3.8 Flash at introductory pricing and Flash Cyber for trusted defenders via Fairwind, focused on long-horizon software engineering and patching.