Google unveils Gemini 4 Argon, and cyber defenders get it first

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Google has unveiled Gemini 4 Argon, the first new generation of its flagship AI model since Gemini 3 last November. A small group of cybersecurity defenders gets it first. Paid API customers and Google AI Ultra subscribers are next, Google said on Wednesday.

Koray Kavukcuoglu, who now runs Google DeepMind day to day, called Argon the company’s “next era of frontier intelligence” in the announcement. Google says the model is built for long, complex workflows in software engineering, legal and finance work, and cybersecurity defence.

The first users come through Google’s Fairwind Program for “trusted cyber defenders”. Google is also taking part in the US government’s voluntary process for pre-release model access. It will widen access after more testing.

Those defenders get Argon without its cyber guardrails, so they can use its full abilities, Google said. Security firm Wiz is already using it to find flaws through its Scan for...

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