Google DeepMind, Help Net Security AI · 6 sourcesGoogle DeepMind · 6 sources · 6 reports · Google releases Gemini 4 Argon, first opened to trusted defenders
Google released the frontier model Gemini 4 Argon, first opening it to a group of trusted cyber defenders through the Fairwind Program and participating in the U.S. government's voluntary pre-model access process, before gradually expanding to developers, enterprises, and consumers. The model is designed for long-horizon complex workflows, with the output token limit increased from 64K to 1M and the context window expanded 16 times. It achieved 77.9% on DeepSWE v1.1 and 91.7% on LVBench long-video understanding. Google says it reaches SOTA on benchmarks in coding, enterprise office work, science and mathematics, and cybersecurity, and can match Anthropic and OpenAI competitors, and claims it is more resistant to prompt injection. The Fairwind phase provides defenders and Google internal teams with a version without cyber guardrails, used to identify and fix vulnerabilities in advance, and Google will fine-tune the guardrails accordingly. Developers, enterprises, and consumers will have access later, first for paid API customers and Google AI Ultra subscribers.