Gemini 4 Argon: our next era of frontier intelligence
Google announced Gemini 4 Argon, a frontier model rolling out first to trusted cyber defenders through its Fairwind Program, with an introductory price of $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens. Google reports state-of-the-art results on DeepSWE v1.1 (77.9%), the Vals Index, LVBench (91.7%), AutomationBench (51.3%), and a tie for first on CWE-bench v1 (68%), alongside internal uses such as C/C++ to Rust migrations and memory optimization. The model raises the output token limit to 1M and is being released in phases with safeguards against misuse, prompt injection, and misalignment before broader availability to paid API customers and Google AI Ultra subscribers.
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