Google Releases Gemini 4 Argon: From Fairwind Limited Availability to Global Rollout

1. 23:03
   The DecoderSelected

   Google's Gemini 4 Argon is closer to the AI frontier than any Google model in months

   Google DeepMind's Gemini 4 Argon scored 97.5% on ARC-AGI-3 using the Provider Adapter Harness, at a cost of $4.

2. 00:35
   The Decoder

   Google wants Gemini 4 Argon to be the only AI model robots need

   Google released Gemini 4 Argon for the full robotics pipeline, able to control robots, build virtual simulations with MuJoCo and evaluate training videos, positioned as a step toward physical AGI.

1. 06:28
   Simon Willison

   llm-gemini 0.35

   Simon Willison added support for the Gemini 4 Argon model to his llm-gemini plugin, available today via the Gemini API and a $100/month subscription plan, and generated low, medium and high-tier pelican SVG examples, with the high tier costing 17.166 cents.

2. 03:43
   Google DeepMindSelected

   Developing Gemini 4 Argon responsibly and safely

   Google DeepMind released Gemini 4 Argon, focused on complex tasks like coding, finance, law, cybersecurity and science, and opened it first to cyber defenders through the Fairwind Program.

3. 02:00
   The DecoderSelected

   Gemini 4 Argon is now available worldwide as Google's most capable frontier model

   Google launched its flagship model Gemini 4 Argon globally through AI Studio, the Gemini platform and the Gemini app, while free users and Plus subscribers only get the weaker Flash model.

4. 00:01
   Google DeepMindSelected

   Gemini 4 Argon for Robotics

   Google DeepMind released Gemini 4 Argon as a general physical reasoning model, scoring 87% on the Embodied Reasoning (ERQA) benchmark, which tests understanding of 3D physical space problems, using pure reasoning to surpass other frontier models.

5. 00:01
   Google DeepMindSelected

   Gemini 4 Argon: Built to solve your hardest problems

   Google DeepMind released Gemini 4 Argon, available worldwide to developers, enterprises, scientists and consumers via the Gemini API, AI Studio, Antigravity and the Gemini app, priced at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, with cached input tokens at a 95% discount.

6. 00:00
   Ars Technica · AISelected

   Gemini 4 Argon begins rolling out in Gemini app and Antigravity, but only if you pay

   Google's Gemini 4 Argon began rolling out today in the Gemini app, limited to AI Pro ($20/month) and AI Ultra (from $99/month) subscribers.

7. 00:00
   The Verge · AISelected

   Google finally releases Gemini 4 Argon

   Google released the Gemini 4 Argon model, claiming frontier reasoning capabilities that beat GPT-6 Astra, Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Opus 5.5 on benchmarks in coding, cybersecurity, science, finance and law.

1. 16:59
   The Decoder

   Google's Gemini 4 "Carbon" model reportedly feels like Anthropic's Opus 5.5 coding performance

   According to Business Insider, Google is testing several Gemini 4 variants — Argon, Barium, and Carbon — with Carbon recently deployed on its internal coding platform Jetski, reportedly outperforming Argon on coding tasks; some employees likened it to Anthropic's strongest coding model, Opus 5.5.

1. 14:45
   Latent Space

   [AINews] Gemini 4 Argon: GDM’s answer to Astra/Fable, with 1M output

   Google DeepMind released Gemini 4 Argon, focused on coding, enterprise knowledge work and cyber defense, ranking first in 13 of 19 benchmarks. Its output cap rises from 64K to 1M tokens, priced at $4/$20 (limited-time half price $2/$10), currently available only to government users of the Fairwind program and trusted cyber defenders.

2. 07:43
   TechCrunch · AI

   Google releases Gemini 4 Argon, called its most powerful model yet

   Google released its new model Gemini 4 Argon, saying it excels at cybersecurity, coding, and research, and can autonomously discover, verify, and fix critical software vulnerabilities. The model was specifically trained on defensive cybersecurity tasks and is currently available only to select cybersecurity partners through the Fairwind security program; Google, citing Vals' model index, says it leads OpenAI GPT-6 Astra and Anthropic's Fable and Opus on multiple benchmarks.

3. 06:06
   The Decoder

   Google Gemini 4 Argon closes the gap with OpenAI and Anthropic but doesn't take a clear lead

   Google released Gemini 4 Argon, its first frontier model in more than seven months, with introductory pricing of $2 per million input tokens and $10 for output, and about a 95% discount on cached input.

4. 04:11
   Ars Technica · AI

   Google announces Gemini 4 Argon AI model, but you can't use it yet

   Google announced its new model Gemini 4 Argon, calling it industry-leading in coding, knowledge work and cybersecurity, but it remains in limited testing and is not yet available to general users. Google is already using it heavily internally: Argon helped save 300 TiB of data center memory using fleet-wide telemetry, and its agents have migrated over 800,000 lines of C/C++ code, including the Fuchsia OS Zircon kernel, to Rust.

5. 04:01
   Google DeepMindSelected

   Gemini 4 Argon: our next era of frontier intelligence

   Google DeepMind has released the frontier model Gemini 4 Argon, first opening it to trusted network defenders through the Fairwind Program, priced at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, with cached input at a 95% discount.

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