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Google has canceled the standalone AI Studio app for Android and iOS that it teased at I/O 2026, despite 800,000 pre-orders. Instead, app-building capabilities will be integrated directly into the Gemini app for mobile and desktop.

GitHub deprecated Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 3 Flash across all Copilot experiences effective July 31, 2026. The models are no longer available in Copilot Chat, inline edits, ask and agent modes, or code completions.

Google DeepMind has introduced Gemini Robotics 2, a vision-language-action model it calls its most advanced yet, designed to control everything from tabletop robot arms to full-body humanoids. The company also released Gemini Robotics ER 2, an embodied reasoning model that replaces ER 1.6.

Google DeepMind has released Gemini Robotics 2, a platform that extends its robotics AI from arm-and-hand manipulation to full-body humanoid control. The system combines a vision language model with two vision-language-action models and introduces a new safety benchmark called ASIMOV-Agentic.

Google DeepMind has released Gemini Robotics ER 2, an embodied reasoning model that acts as a high-level planning brain for robots, adding continuous video progress tracking, precision moment-finding, and multi-robot collaboration. The model is available now via the Gemini API and Google AI Studio, with private preview access on the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform.

Google DeepMind has released Lyria 3.5, an updated music generation model now live in Google Flow Music. The company claims improvements in melodic complexity, lyric quality, vocal expressiveness, and creative controls like tempo and duration.

Chinese startup Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 as a free, open-weight model that it claims beats top US systems at a fraction of the cost. The move has intensified pressure on OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic to reconsider their closed-model strategies.

Google has confirmed it is training Gemini 4 in what it calls its 'most ambitious pre-training run yet,' with CEO Sundar Pichai saying the next-generation model will need a 'much larger base model' to compete at the frontier. No specs, benchmarks, or firm release date have been disclosed, though historical cadence points to a November or December 2026 launch.

NVIDIA released a quantized version of Google DeepMind's DiffusionGemma 26B A4B IT, a multimodal model with 25.2B total parameters (3.8B active) that processes text, image, and video inputs. The NVFP4-quantized model achieves generation speeds exceeding 1,100 tokens per second on NVIDIA H100 GPUs while supporting a 256K token context window.

Amazon Web Services today announced availability of Google DeepMind's Gemma 4 family on Amazon Bedrock. The open-weight models include three instruction-tuned variants spanning 2.3B to 30.7B parameters, with 256K context windows, multimodal input support, and built-in reasoning mode.

Google DeepMind released DiffusionGemma, a 26B parameter mixture-of-experts model that generates text using discrete diffusion instead of autoregression. The model processes blocks of 256 tokens in parallel, achieving generation speeds exceeding 1100 tokens per second on H100 GPUs in low-batch settings.

Google DeepMind released Gemini 3.5 Live Translate, an audio model that provides near real-time speech-to-speech translation across 70+ languages. The model automatically detects languages, preserves speaker intonation and pacing, and maintains a few seconds of latency while generating continuous speech output.

Google DeepMind has released quantization-aware training (QAT) optimized versions of its Gemma 4 model family in GGUF Q4_0 format. The QAT versions preserve similar quality to bfloat16 while dramatically reducing memory requirements, with models available across the entire Gemma 4 lineup: E2B, E4B, 12B, 26B A4B, and 31B.

Google DeepMind released the Gemma 4 E4B assistant model using Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) architecture that accelerates inference by up to 2x through speculative decoding. The 4.5B effective parameter model supports 128K context windows and handles text, image, and audio input with pricing not yet disclosed.