Google DeepMind: what I’ve logged
Google DeepMind comes up in 28 posts of my AI log, from September 2025 to October 2026, and each item below links to the primary source. The releases I logged include Gemini 4 Argon for Robotics, Nano Banana 2.1 and EmbeddingGemma 2, filed under frontier, open weights and robotics.
Items that mention Google DeepMind
- Google DeepMind 13 Oct 2026
Gemini 4 Argon: Built to solve your hardest problems
Google's new frontier model, live in the API, Antigravity and the Gemini app, priced at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens at launch.
- Google DeepMind 13 Oct 2026
Gemini 4 Argon for Robotics
Reports 87% on the ERQA embodied reasoning benchmark and shows prompts for robot control, Real2Sim and hindsight labeling.
- Google DeepMind 5 Oct 2026
Nano Banana 2.1
Google's image generation and conversational editing model is generally available, with up to 14 reference images and search grounding.
- Google DeepMind 5 Oct 2026
EmbeddingGemma 2
A 740M open embedding model that maps text, code, images, video and audio into one vector space, across more than 100 languages.
- Google DeepMind 28 Sep 2026
Gemini 4 Argon
Google's new frontier model, rolling out first to trusted cyber defenders, with a 1M-token output limit and a stated 77.9% on DeepSWE v1.1.
- Google DeepMind 28 Sep 2026
SynthID Bio
Watermarking methods for synthetic biology, so that AI-designed sequences can be traced back to their source.
- Google DeepMind 21 Sep 2026
Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS
Google's text-to-speech models move to the 3.8 generation, in two sizes.
- Google DeepMind 14 Sep 2026
Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
Two real-time voice models, one built for scale across 97 languages and one for multi-step work, both reachable through the Gemini API.
- Google DeepMind 7 Sep 2026
AlphaGenome Atlas
A 1-petabyte precomputed map of predicted effects for about 9 billion possible single-letter DNA changes, free for academic use.
- Google DeepMind 31 Aug 2026
Gemini 3.8 Flash and Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber
Google's most capable Flash model for long-horizon software and agent work, with a separate cyber variant for defenders.
- Google DeepMind 31 Aug 2026
WeatherNext 3
DeepMind's most advanced global weather model yet, following the cyclone work from last month.
- Google DeepMind 24 Aug 2026
Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash
A generally available video generation and editing model with native audio, output up to 4K, scene extension and video references.
- Google DeepMind 24 Aug 2026
Piloting the world's first double-blind AI evaluations
Outside evaluators tested a Gemini model without seeing its weights, and Google never saw the test prompts, which limits benchmark contamination.
- Google DeepMind 17 Aug 2026
From Atari to EVE Online: 15 years of AI research in games
Traces DQN through AlphaGo and SIMA 2, and announces a partnership to study long-term memory and multi-agent behavior inside EVE Online.
- Google DeepMind 10 Aug 2026
Gemini 3.7 Flash
Google's generally available workhorse for coding and agents, with a 1M-token window, 64K output and thinking levels from low to high.
- Google DeepMind 10 Aug 2026
SL2T sign-language-to-text
A sign-to-text model that runs on pose landmarks on the device, so no raw video leaves the phone, starting with American Sign Language.
- Google DeepMind 3 Aug 2026
WeatherNext cyclone forecasting
A Nature paper reports three-day cyclone forecasts as accurate as older models' two-day ones, and DeepMind is open-sourcing the models.
- Google DeepMind 27 Jul 2026
Gemini Robotics 2 and Gemini Robotics ER 2
Three robot models covering whole-body control, embodied reasoning and on-device use, with ER 2 already open to developers in Google AI Studio.
- Google DeepMind 20 Jul 2026
Gemini 3.6 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite and Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber
A generally available multimodal Flash model with a 1M-token window at $0.75 in and $3.75 out per million tokens, plus a cheaper Lite tier.
- Google DeepMind 29 Jun 2026
Gemini Omni Flash and Nano Banana 2 Lite
June 30 brought a video generation and editing model at $0.10 per second and a fast image model at $0.034 per 1K image, both with SynthID.
- Google DeepMind 22 Jun 2026
Computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash
June 24 makes computer use a built-in tool in Gemini 3.5 Flash, with optional confirmation steps and prompt-injection stops for enterprises.
- Google DeepMind 18 May 2026
Gemini 3.5 Flash
First model of the 3.5 family, reported at 76.2% on Terminal-Bench 2.1 and 83.6% on MCP Atlas, and the new default in the Gemini app and AI Mode.
- Google DeepMind 18 May 2026
Gemini Omni
A model that creates content from mixed inputs, starting with video.
- Google DeepMind 18 May 2026
Project Genie with Street View
Experimental interactive 3D simulations of real places, running in the browser.
- Google DeepMind 13 Apr 2026
Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6
Better spatial reasoning and multi-view understanding, plus gauge reading developed with Boston Dynamics, available in the Gemini API and AI Studio.
- Google DeepMind 30 Mar 2026
Gemma 4
Four sizes (E2B, E4B, a 26B mixture-of-experts and a 31B dense) under Apache 2.0, with the 31B ranked third among open models on the Arena text leaderboard, per Google.
- Google DeepMind 23 Mar 2026
Gemini 3.1 Flash Live
A real-time audio model for voice agents, with lower latency and better function calling.
- Google DeepMind 9 Mar 2026
Gemini Embedding 2
One embedding model maps text, images, video and audio into the same space, so a single search can span all of them.
- Google DeepMind 2 Mar 2026
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite
Google's cheapest Gemini 3 tier, built for high-volume work where cost per call is the constraint.
- Google DeepMind 16 Feb 2026
Gemini 3.1 Pro
Google's updated top model, with a model card and a stronger showing on reasoning benchmarks.
- Google DeepMind 9 Feb 2026
Gemini 3 Deep Think update
Google upgraded its extended-reasoning mode, pitched at hard science and engineering problems.
- Google DeepMind 26 Jan 2026
Project Genie
Genie 3 became something users can try: you describe a world and walk around in it.
- Google DeepMind 17 Nov 2025
Nano Banana Pro
Image generation and editing on Gemini 3, with sharp text rendering and more control over composition.
- Google DeepMind 10 Nov 2025
SIMA 2
A Gemini-based agent that plays in 3D game worlds, reasons about goals and improves itself.
- Google DeepMind 6 Oct 2025
Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model
A Gemini model that clicks, types and scrolls through a real browser through the API.
- Google DeepMind 6 Oct 2025
CodeMender
An agent that finds and patches security bugs, with human review before anything is merged.
- Google DeepMind 22 Sep 2025
Gemini Robotics 1.5
A robot model that plans in natural language before acting, paired with an embodied reasoning model that can call tools.
Posts that cover Google DeepMind
October 20262 entries
September 20264 entries
- Week of 28 Sep 2026Gemini 4 Argon debuts to cyber defenders, Sonnet 5.5, GPT-6.1 SolFrontier · Agents and coding · Open weights · Science · Policy and business
- Week of 21 Sep 2026Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol land, Claude finds a new enzymeFrontier · Open weights · Science · Image, video, world
- Week of 14 Sep 2026Gemini 3.8 Live, open Qwen-Image-2.1 and Anthropic's Accenture pactFrontier · Image, video, world · Open weights · Policy and business
- Week of 7 Sep 2026DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, Devin's SWE-2 and a petabyte of DNA predictionsOpen weights · Agents and coding · Science · Image, video, world
August 20265 entries
- Week of 31 Aug 2026Claude Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 Astra both land, plus Gemini 3.8 FlashFrontier · Open weights · Science · Agents and coding
- Week of 24 Aug 2026Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash video, Tencent's Hy4 and GLM-5.3-Flash open upImage, video, world · Open weights · Agents and coding · Policy and business
- Week of 17 Aug 2026A quiet week: Qwen3.8-27B, DeepSeek adds vision, DeepMind on gamesOpen weights · Agents and coding · Robotics · Image, video, world
- Week of 10 Aug 2026Grok 4.6, Gemini 3.7 Flash and GLM-5.3 arrive in four daysFrontier · Open weights · Science
- Week of 3 Aug 2026Qwen3.8-Max at 2.4T, Motif 3, and WeatherNext goes openFrontier · Open weights · Image, video, world · Science
July 20262 entries
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March 20264 entries
- Week of 30 Mar 2026Gemma 4 goes Apache 2.0, Qwen3.6-Plus, GLM-5V-TurboOpen weights · Frontier · Agents and coding
- Week of 23 Mar 2026Google's TurboQuant, open voice from Mistral and Cohere, Flash LiveFrontier · Open weights · Science · Agents and coding
- Week of 9 Mar 2026Nemotron 3 Super opens up and Gemini Embedding 2 goes multimodalOpen weights · Agents and coding · Image, video, world
- Week of 2 Mar 2026GPT-5.4 ships, Karpathy's autoresearch, and Qwen3.5 goes smallFrontier · Open weights · Image, video, world · Agents and coding
February 20262 entries
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November 20252 entries
- Week of 17 Nov 2025Gemini 3 Pro, Antigravity, Grok 4.1, Nano Banana Pro, SAM 3Frontier · Agents and coding · Image, video, world · Open weights · Policy and business
- Week of 10 Nov 2025GPT-5.1, World Labs' Marble, and Anthropic's espionage reportFrontier · Image, video, world · Policy and business · Open weights · Science