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Google DeepMind announces Gemini 4 Argon, first released only to vetted cyber defenders

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Source: Google: Gemini 4 Argon

Google DeepMind announced Gemini 4 Argon, its new frontier model, and began rolling it out only to trusted cyber defenders through its Fairwind Program while it takes part in the US government’s voluntary pre-release access process. Google said Argon scores 77.9% on DeepSWE v1.1, the top published score, raises the output limit to 1 million tokens from 64,000, and will launch at $2 and $10 per million input and output tokens.

Why it matters

Google is holding back general release of its top model behind cyber-defender access and US government review, as Anthropic did with Mythos.

When
30 Sep 2026
ID
WTA-N-2026-0136
Who
Google DeepMind, Google; Koray Kavukcuoglu

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from Google. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

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Source copy: download the page as saved on 18 Oct 2026 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.

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WTA-N-2026-0136: “Google DeepMind announces Gemini 4 Argon, first released only to vetted cyber defenders.” wheresthe.ai, 30 Sep 2026. https://wheresthe.ai/d/google-gemini-4-argon-2026-09/ (source: Google: Gemini 4 Argon).

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