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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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