Inside Gemini 4: What Sundar Pichai and Alphabet said about its next-gen AI model

During Alphabet’s Q2 2026 earnings call, CEO Sundar Pichai clarified the company’s agenda to Wall Street – the company’s long-term focus remains on Gemini 4 while its current AI suite is scaling rapidly across consumer and enterprise markets.

In the company’s books, Gemini 4 represents the anchor of Google’s next-generation frontier AI strategy, especially as it works to maintain pace with rivals OpenAI and Anthropic. With rumours of a delay on the current-gen Gemini 3.5 Pro model release, Google’s team is working on honing the next-gen model, possibly to help the company leap ahead of OpenAI, Anthropic and others in the AI race.