Gemini 4 Argon goes to trusted cyber defenders first through Google's Fairwind Program, with paid API customers and AI Ultra subscribers to follow. No general availability date has been given.
Defenders and Google's internal teams get it without cyber guardrails, meaning an unrestricted version exists and access is a matter of approval rather than payment.
Google reports 77.9% on DeepSWE v1.1 against 74.2% for Claude Opus 5.5 and 74.1% for GPT-6 Astra, a tie for first at 68% on CWE-bench and first place on AutomationBench. It leads two of four coding…
Bloomberg reports Google employees found the model stronger on benchmarks than on real work, including some coding tasks. Google disputes that characterisation.
The output limit rises from 64,000 tokens to 1 million, which is the difference between a long chapter and a small codebase, and may matter more commercially than the benchmark scores.
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