
DeepMind Maps Four Routes from AGI to Superintelligence
A 57-page DeepMind paper by co-founder Shane Legg identifies four pathways from AGI to superintelligence and six bottlenecks that could block each route.
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A 57-page DeepMind paper by co-founder Shane Legg identifies four pathways from AGI to superintelligence and six bottlenecks that could block each route.

Google DeepMind's upcoming flagship model with a 2M-token context window and Deep Think reasoning, announced at Google I/O 2026 and expected in July.

Google DeepMind's DiffusionGemma generates 1,000+ tokens per second through parallel diffusion, trading 5-19 benchmark points against Gemma 4 for speed and unique bidirectional generation capabilities.

At G7 in Evian, Altman, Amodei, and Hassabis pitched world leaders on a US-led international AI governance body, chip trade restrictions on China, and controlled access to frontier models.

Three new papers expose a 50-point gap in agent tool knowledge, show tree search tripling inference throughput, and map the research between AGI and superintelligence.

DiffusionGemma 26B is Google DeepMind's open-weight discrete diffusion language model that generates 256 tokens in parallel, reaching 1,100+ tokens/sec on H100 - roughly 4x faster than autoregressive models of the same size.

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Google DeepMind's fastest frontier model, hitting 76.2% on Terminal-Bench 2.1 and 289 tok/s, now powering AI Mode in Search for over 1 billion monthly users.

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