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Google announces Gemini 4 Argon as its new frontier model

Google said the model tops key coding and security benchmarks and is rolling out first to trusted cyber defenders.

  • On Wednesday, Google unveiled Gemini 4 Argon, calling it its "next era of frontier intelligence," featuring a 1M-token output limit to enable longer, more complex workflows.
  • The release marks a strategic shift after Google spent the last year prioritizing lower-cost Flash models while rivals OpenAI and Anthropic advanced frontier capabilities in coding and cybersecurity.
  • Benchmark testing shows Argon achieved 91.7% on LVBench and tied for first on CWE-bench with 68%, while ranking first on AutomationBench with 51.3% across coding and professional tasks.
  • Google is limiting initial access to trusted partners via the Fairwind Program while collaborating with the US government on pre-release safety evaluations, deploying misalignment mitigations to monitor internal activations.
  • Internally, Argon is optimizing Google's data centers, freeing over 300 TiB of memory through codebase migrations, before rolling out soon to Ultra subscribers and paid API customers.
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(San Francisco = Yonhap News) Correspondent Kwon Young-jeon = Google, which had been releasing only lightweight artificial intelligence (AI) models for over half a year, has finally unveiled a top-tier AI model. However, safety...

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New model targets software engineering, legal and financial workflows, with broader public access planned ‘as soon as possible’

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Google follows suit with its rivals Anthropic and OpenAI, who have also begun, this year, to reserve their latest models to a limited number of trusted partners, because of their ability to identify computer flaws "We're talking a lot about our next model (!), so I wanted to give an overview as soon as possible," wrote X Google's boss Sundar Pichai. The American giant unveiled, Wednesday, Gemini 4, its new state-of-the-art artificial intelligenc…

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New York, Sep 30 (EFE).- Google announced this Wednesday Gemini 4 Argon, its border artificial intelligence (IA) model, designed to solve complex workflows and with a strong role in cyber defense and the autonomous detection of security vulnerabilities. The announcement comes at a time of growing concern about the [...] The Google post launches Gemini 4 Argon, with the focus on cyber defense and in full debate on security AI was first published …

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El Economista broke the news in Mexico City, Mexico on Wednesday, September 30, 2026.
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