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Google announces Gemini 4 Argon as its new frontier model
The model expands coding, cybersecurity and multimodal work, and Google says it scores 77.9% on DeepSWE v1.1.
- 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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