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Series end: what Google confirmed under Kavukcuoglu’s SVP seat — and what is still analysis or unknown. Reporting map + Confirmed / Analysis / Unknown.
Series start (Aug 5, 2026): Kavukcuoglu named DeepMind SVP; Hassabis becomes chair and Alphabet chief scientist; Dean & Ghemawat exit to a PBC.
Google DeepMind launched Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS with generative voice design and line-by-line direction. Both arrive in Google AI Studio and the Gemini API, with consumer and enterprise access to follow.
Google DeepMind released Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar, bringing near real-time video personas to Gemini Enterprise. The feature supports 97 languages with lip-sync and async tool calling for smoother dialogue.
Google DeepMind launched Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking on September 15, 2026, adding real-time visual grounding and background tool execution to voice agents across the Gemini API and Workspace.
On August 27, 2026, Google DeepMind announced the first double-blind evaluation of a frontier-class model, testing Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite inside a cryptographic enclave. The approach lets outside auditors run confidential benchmarks without exposing prompts or model weights.
Google DeepMind launched agentic video understanding for Gemini 3.7 Flash, 3.6 Flash, and 3.5 Flash-Lite, cutting token use by up to 88% and costs by up to 66% while boosting accuracy. The feature lets models dynamically scan video instead of fixed-rate sampling, available today via the Gemini API.
Google DeepMind released Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash on August 27, 2026, adding scene extension, keyframe control, and 4K upscaling for developers. The update makes generative video viable for professional creative workflows with controllable camera motion and cheaper iteration.
Hassabis steps back from DeepMind day-to-day ops but keeps the science brief: Alphabet chief scientist, DeepMind chair, and Isomorphic Labs CEO after a \$2.1B Series B. Here is the portfolio that remains.
Google launched Gemini 3.5 Transcribe with 4.0% streaming WER and native function calling for voice agents. The model cuts transcription latency by 70% versus Chirp 3 and supports 85+ languages.
Related angle: why coding/agentic execution became the urgency gap around Kavukcuoglu’s SVP mandate — confirmed vs report-based “Code Strike” claims.
Alphabet is founding investor and Cloud partner in Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat’s Discovery Loop PBC. The spin-out automates scientific loops while Gemini product AI consolidates under DeepMind’s new SVP.