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4 articles First covered Apr 19, 2026, latest Aug 6, 2026

Demis Hassabis stands between David Baker and John Jumper in front of a Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences backdrop at the 2024 Nobel Prize conference

Google moved Demis Hassabis out of the DeepMind CEO seat. Koray Kavukcuoglu now runs Gemini.

Sundar Pichai made Hassabis chair of Google DeepMind and Alphabet chief scientist. Koray Kavukcuoglu takes the Gemini org, and Jeff Dean is leaving.

Cactus Compute YouTube thumbnail showing the team behind Needle

AI·3 months ago

Cactus Compute distilled Gemini into a 26M tool-calling model. The trick: no feed-forward layers.

Needle is a 26M-parameter function caller distilled from Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite. The Simple Attention Network drops MLPs and runs at 6,000 tok/s prefill on edge silicon.

DeepSeek social card from the V4 API documentation release post.

AI·4 months ago

DeepSeek V4 lands: 1.6T-param open MoE, 1M-token context, and SWE-bench within 0.2 of Opus 4.6

DeepSeek shipped V4-Pro and V4-Flash under MIT on April 24. V4-Pro hits 80.6% on SWE-bench Verified. V4-Flash is $0.14 in / $0.28 out.

Google DeepMind Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 architecture and demo illustration

AI·4 months ago

Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 is the brain, not the hands. Here's how the new two-model robotics stack works.

Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 jumps instrument reading from 23% to 93% and slots in above a separate VLA model. Boston Dynamics' Spot is already running it.