Google Launches Its Flagship Model Gemini 4 Argon

Google announced the launch of Gemini 4 Argon, the flagship model for the Gemini 4 generation, on September 30, 2026, aiming to close the competitive gap with Anthropic and OpenAI. The initial rollout focuses on the cybersecurity defense sector through the Fairwind program, with support for up to one million tokens, achieving 77.9% on the DeepSWE v1.1 benchmark and 68% on CWE-bench v1. No public availability date has been announced, with preliminary pricing at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens.