Google released Gemini 4 Argon, and released it to almost nobody: a… [Oct 1 2026]
Google released Gemini 4 Argon, and released it to almost nobody: a restricted set of cyber defenders in its Fairwind programme, who get it "without cyber guardrails", with developers, enterprises and consumers later. Google reports 77.9% on DeepSWE v1.1 and a tie for first on CWE-bench v1 at 68%, and raises the output limit to 1M tokens from 64K. Artificial Analysis puts Argon (High) level with GPT-6 Astra at 53 on its Intelligence Index, at $1.99 per task against $3.26. Google says it is taking part in the US government's voluntary process for pre-release model access. Implicator.ai…
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