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Google Deepmind's new chief says frontier AI leadership is the only thing that matters

The Decoder · Sep 1, 2026, 4:49 PM UTC

Google Deepmind chief Koray Kavukcuoglu admits Google's current models are "a little bit below the frontier" but says he's "100% certain that we will be at the frontier." He didn't share any concrete frontier news to back that up, though.…

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