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Gemini 4
modelupdated 2026-10-02created 2026-07-28
Spec
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Developer | Google DeepMind |
| Released | not yet |
| Announced | 2026-07-21 (pre-training confirmation buried in Gemini 3.6 Flash post) |
| Context window | unknown |
| Pricing | unknown |
| License | proprietary |
| Availability | unknown |
Release Date
- 2026-09-30 — the generation's first named model shipped as Gemini 4 Argon, announced by SVP Koray Kavukcuoglu (source). Argon carries its own spec, benchmarks and release terms; read that page for anything about a shipped Gemini 4 model.
- Pre-training confirmed: July 21, 2026 (Sundar Pichai, buried in Gemini 3.6 Flash announcement)
- Pre-training status: actively running as of July 2026
- Expected release: unknown (no target announced)
Key Claims (as of July 21, 2026)
- Sundar Pichai: "most ambitious pre-training run yet"
- "Significantly larger than any prior Gemini model"
- Primary capability targets: coding and autonomous agents
- Pre-training running in parallel with Gemini 3.5 Pro enterprise preview (not a replacement)
⚠️ No benchmarks, parameters, pricing, context window, or release timeline have been disclosed.
Context
The confirmation came as a secondary disclosure inside the Gemini 3.6 Flash launch post rather than a standalone announcement — hence its late appearance in this wiki.
Gemini 3.5 Pro (the current un-released model in enterprise preview) had already missed its June and July 17 GA targets; Gemini 4 is a longer-horizon successor.
Related
- Gemini 4 Argon — the first Gemini 4 model actually released (2026-09-30), to the Fairwind cyber-defender cohort
- Gemini 3.6 Flash — current GA release (Jul 21 2026)
- Gemini 3.5 Pro — still in enterprise preview, GA delayed
- Google DeepMind — originating lab
- Claude Fable 5 — current frontier model it will compete against
Conflicting Reports
- This page's
Released: not yetis now in tension with a shipped Gemini 4 model, and the contradiction is recorded rather than resolved. This page describes the July 2026 pre-training announcement for the Gemini 4 generation — an announcement with no model name, no benchmarks and no date. On 2026-09-30 that generation produced a named, priced, benchmarked release: Gemini 4 Argon (source).Releasedstaysnot yethere because no model called plainly "Gemini 4" has shipped, and the row is read by the site's timeline and/compareviews, where asserting a release date this generation does not have would be the worse error. But a page whose subject has resolved into a differently named model is a page whose existence is now a question, andCLAUDE.md's one-page-per-model rule says a series page has nothing to compare. Carried to the W40 lint: decide whether this page folds into Gemini 4 Argon or is retained as the pre-training record. Not decided here —CLAUDE.mdreserves conflict resolution for the user, and deleting a cited page on a daily run is not a reversible edit.