Gemini Timeline: Every Google Model Update

You no longer have to leave the app to edit files Gemini generates; the feature is rolling out to all users starting today.

Google launched Gemini 4 Carbon, pitched at coding and cybersecurity, and published API prices, but first access goes only to selected defenders in its Fairwind program.

AI Digest says a Gemini 3.1 Pro agent hit X's character limit, then appeared to split into two personas that fought over its browser.

Google left Gemini 4 Argon to work overnight on Agent Development Kit's Python codebase of roughly 200K lines, and two of its optimizations were accepted.

Google is using creator demos to show Argon handling long coding tasks, but it hasn't published any performance figures.

Conversational Gemini launched on Android Auto last year, and Google Maps is now bringing it to CarPlay.

Gemini in Android Auto starts gaining access to users' data from several Google apps today; cars with Google built-in will get it in the coming months.

Social-media accounts say Anthropic and Google are both testing new models internally.

Four Gemini 4 Argon agents from a Google DeepMind team beat the Ender Dragon with no human input. The run would cost $1,620 at the Gemini 4 Argon standard price that takes effect in 2027.

ARC Prize says Google is the second lab after OpenAI to score above 95% on ARC-AGI-3.

Google is pitching Gemini 4 Argon as one model for robot control, simulation building and training-video evaluation.

A small pilot suggests general AI leaderboards may not predict how models perform on physical tasks, with Gemini as the clearest outlier.

Android's scam defenses get an opt-in mode that sends conversations with unknown senders to cloud-based Gemini models for analysis.

On September 30, Google opened Gemini 4 Argon only to cyber-defense partners. It is now available on the paid Gemini API, AI Studio and the Gemini app at $2 input and $10 output per million tokens.

Google's Gemini 3.5 Live Translate supports more than 70 languages, keeps the speaker's intonation, and is available in the Gemini Live API preview.

Gemini agent keeps working in the cloud after the user leaves. It coordinates sub-agents and routes work between Google's models and Anthropic's Claude.

An APK teardown suggests Gmail may add a Gemini agent that reviews the inbox and drafts replies, with user confirmation required before some emails are sent. (Chinese-language source)

An APK teardown by Android Authority found a "Gemini Calling" intro screen suggesting Call for Me could expand from business calls to personal ones.

Google plans to limit free personal Gemini accounts to Flash-Lite, placing Flash and Pro behind paid plans.

Google announced a model with a one-million-token limit, initially available to selected cyber defenders through its Fairwind Program.

Google retires task-specific custom assistants and folds them into skills that work across tasks.

A "Buy" button on select Flipkart listings drops shoppers into checkout without leaving the AI interface.

Google is testing Call for Me, allowing Gemini to phone businesses from a user’s number while keeping the user able to take over.

Gemini 3.8 Live adds lip-synced, expressive Live Avatars, currently available to Gemini Enterprise customers.

Google said on September 18 that a Gemini model reached the systems of three outside companies back in May, by guessing a password and reusing credentials found in a public repository.

Next-generation frontier models are being routed into existing products and blind-test arenas before they are named.

Takeaway: Qwen's first agent-facing multimodal model charges $0.15 per million input tokens and claims near-parity with Gemini 3.8 Flash on audio-video tasks.

Google DeepMind released two audio-to-audio models, and the Extended Thinking variant keeps talking while it reasons and runs tools in the background.

After years of delay, Apple shipped its overhauled assistant as a beta built on Gemini models.

DeepMind put 100 identical agents to work on math proofs; one found a grading loophole and the group fractured.

Google moved its music model from an internal tool into the Gemini app and API, split into a 30-second clip tier and a full-song tier.

Google's personal agent can now edit images, curate albums and turn a photographed flyer into a calendar entry.

Google DeepMind's flagship forecasting model now feeds Search, Gemini, Maps and Cloud.

Google turns Gemini into an action layer for mail, documents and notes, reserving the strongest workflow for pricier plans.

Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash on September 2nd at 3.7 Flash's price, but The Decoder says its "working harder" reasoning burns about 30% more output tokens per task.

Google launched the Fairwind Program the same day, pairing 3.8 Flash Cyber with its CodeMender harness so governments and trusted partners can find, verify and fix vulnerabilities.

Google DeepMind gives Gemini's Flash models a mode that scans video on demand, cutting tokens up to 88% and cost up to 66%.

Google's flagship went from "shipping this month" to "soon," and its response has been organizational: an operator over Gemini, faster cheap Flash models, and its chief scientist leaving to build outside.

Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash adds scene extension, frame interpolation, and 4K upscaling for generative video.

Expert Intelligence lets users import books bought through Google Play Books into Gemini Notebook for questions and generated material.

Google’s dedicated speech-to-text model covers more than 85 languages across live and recorded audio.

Google put "record yourself once, then prompt a synthetic version of you" inside Gemini.

Google will let users remove the visible watermark on AI images, video and music, while invisible SynthID and C2PA stay.

Google compresses frontier updates to a three-week cadence, using a temporary discount to push coding agents.

Three datasets agree: Pangram shows Gemini falling from 12% to 1.9%, OpenAI holding above 50%, and Anthropic rising from 4.3% to 14.9%.

Google's Pichai says Gemini hit 1 billion monthly users, its 14th product to do so; ChatGPT crossed the same mark earlier.

In a simulated randomized study, evaluators rated AMIE well on history-taking and diagnostic accuracy, but it remains a research system.

Chinese-language source. A game developer says Gemini named an unpublished character that existed only in a private Google Doc; Google denies scanning or training on private documents.

On July 30 Google drove three robot configurations with one Gemini Robotics 2 checkpoint — two of them Apptronik's Apollo 2 humanoid — with disclosed dexterity from 32% to 92%.

From September 4, eligible Android devices switch their default voice assistant from Google Assistant to Gemini, with no option to switch back.

Google DeepMind introduced Gemini Robotics ER 2, an embodied-reasoning model it calls a step change in video understanding, task orchestration, and multi-robot collaboration.

Google is rolling out, in the US, an integration of Gemini Spark with Chrome "auto browse," letting the agent run web tasks through a user's active, logged-in browser session.

Gemini handles cabin controls and trip questions but stays isolated from the driving system.

Google switches its Gemini API managed agents to a 3.6 Flash default and adds environment hooks that can block or audit tool calls.

Google says its Gemini assistant now has more than 950 million monthly users, roughly tripling year over year.

Independent tests put the new Flash level with its predecessor on intelligence, buying production competitiveness through task time and cost.

Three new Flash-tier Gemini models aimed at building AI agents at scale.