Google AI: Release Notes Koray Kavukcuoglu: “This Is How We Are Going to Build AGI”
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Nov 25, 2025 
In a captivating discussion, Koray Kavukcuoglu, CTO of Google DeepMind and Chief AI Architect, shares his insights on the launch of Gemini 3 and its overwhelmingly positive reception. He highlights the importance of benchmarks in AI advancements while addressing upcoming focus areas like instruction following and internationalization. Koray also explores the role of generative media in achieving AGI and how a collaborative culture promotes innovation at Google. He reflects on the engineering mindset that drives safety and user-friendly AI development.
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Celebrate Briefly, Then Improve Fast
- Koray says enjoy launches briefly but immediately identify gaps to improve.
- He highlights agentic actions and coding as major growth areas after Gemini 3.
Research To Productmindset Shift
- Koray recounts how the team's development environment shifted closer to product usage.
- That tighter product connection steered priorities like agentic infrastructure work.
Multimodality Is Converging
- Multimodality is returning as architectures converge across text, image, audio, and video.
- Combining text and image understanding unlocks richer, more coherent generation use cases.