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Gemini 4 Argon

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Google announces Gemini 4 Argon AI model, but you can't use it yet Ars Technica · 2 hours ago · 20

Gemini 4 Argon: our next era of frontier intelligence Google · 2 hours ago · 48

Gemini 4 Argon is here: It’s great, and you can’t have it yet The New Stack · 2 hours ago · 10

Google announces Gemini 4 and says it’s so capable that only ‘trusted cyber defenders’ can have it right now The Verge · 5 hours ago · 20

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September 2026

Google announces Gemini 4 Argon, a new frontier AI model for software engineering, knowledge work, and cybersecurity, with staged availability and limited initial access Model release

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TLDRocket 30 September 2026

Google kicked off the day with Gemini 4 Argon, calling it its flagship model while making it hard to get. The staged rollout is priced at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens for an early window, then climbs to $4 and $20. Access starts with Google’s Fairwind Program for “trusted cyber defenders,” with a higher 1M-token output limit and guardrails baked in—an attempt to turn frontier capabilities into something operational before the broader public comes calling. Even when the model looks strong on knowledge-work benchmarks, reports say it’s weaker in some coding and cybersecurity measures, which helps explain the careful throttling.

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