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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Building AGI With Users
- Koray frames building AGI as a joint effort between research, products, and users.
- He argues that real-world product use accelerates idea generation and progress.
Progress Runs On Innovation
- Koray emphasizes that progress comes from innovation across data, pre-training, and post-training.
- He says increasing real-world usage raises signal diversity and drives new ideas.
Benchmarks Move The Frontier
- Benchmarks guide model development but stop defining the frontier as models improve.
- New benchmarks must be created once existing ones saturate to measure true progress.