Google launches Gemini 4 Argon frontier model

Google DeepMind released Gemini 4 Argon, a frontier model with a 1M-token context window for complex, long-horizon tasks such as coding, financial research, legal drafting and autonomous vulnerability patching. It is rolling out first to trusted cyber defenders via the Fairwind Program and the US government's pre-release access process. Pricing starts at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, with cached input 95% off.

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