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  "id": 11022401,
  "title": "Google announces Gemini 4 Argon as its new frontier model",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/30/google-announces-gemini-4-argon-as-its-new-frontier-model",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-30T20:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "9to5Google",
    "slug": "9to5google",
    "url": "https://9to5google.com/2026/09/30/gemini-4-argon-announcement/"
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  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Google has unveiled Gemini 4 Argon, its newest frontier model, heralding a new era of deep reasoning and complex problem-solving. This comes after the cancellation of Gemini 3.5 Pro and a shift towards 3.8 Flash. The new model, featuring a unique naming scheme, is poised to deliver frontier-level capabilities in coding, knowledge work, cybersecurity defense, and creative writing. One of its standout features is a 1M token output limit, a significant increase from its previous 64K limit, enabling the processing of longer and more intricate tasks.\n\nIn addition to its expanded reasoning and coding capabilities, Gemini 4 Argon boasts enhanced performance in cybersecurity defense, with a DeepSWE v1.1 score of 77.9%, surpassing competitors like Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra. Initially set to be available without cyber guardrails to trusted defenders and internal Google teams, the model is expected to soon roll out to Google AI Ultra subscribers and paid API customers.\n\nGoogle's internal teams have already begun leveraging Gemini 4 Argon for various tasks, including memory optimizations across Google's data centers, freeing up over 300 TiB of memory. The model is also being used for migrating large-scale codebases to Rust, enhancing the performance of systems like Google's video decoder, which now runs 2.7 times faster than its previous version while maintaining identical video output.",
  "summary": "Gemini 4 Argon is Google’s “next era of frontier intelligence” and built for “deep reasoning across complex, long-horizon workflows.” It follows the cancellation of Gemini 3.5 Pro and focus on 3.8 Flash . more…",
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        "outlet": "Google Blog",
        "title": "Gemini 4 Argon: our next era of frontier intelligence",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/30/gemini-4-argon-our-next-era-of-frontier-intelligence",
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        "outlet": "The New Stack",
        "title": "Gemini 4 Argon is here: It’s great, and you can’t have it yet",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/30/gemini-4-argon-is-here-its-great-and-you-cant-have-it-yet",
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        "outlet": "Google DeepMind",
        "title": "Gemini 4 Argon: our next era of frontier intelligence",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/30/gemini-4-argon-our-next-era-of-frontier-intelligence-11020682",
        "published": "2026-09-30T20:01:45.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "Techmeme",
        "title": "Google rolls out Gemini 4 Argon to a small group of cybersecurity partners and says it outperforms GPT-6 Astra on certain coding and knowledge work benchmarks (Madison Mills/Axios)",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/30/google-rolls-out-gemini-4-argon-to-a-small-group-of-cybersecurity",
        "published": "2026-09-30T20:10:01.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Ars Technica",
        "title": "Google announces Gemini 4 Argon AI model, but you can't use it yet",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/30/google-announces-gemini-4-argon-ai-model-but-you-cant-use-it-yet",
        "published": "2026-09-30T20:11:08.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "XDA Developers",
        "title": "Google reveals Gemini 4 Argon, but you're not allowed to use it",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/30/google-reveals-gemini-4-argon-but-youre-not-allowed-to-use-it",
        "published": "2026-09-30T21:17:11.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Android Authority",
        "title": "Google pulls back the curtain to tease Gemini 4 Argon",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/30/google-pulls-back-the-curtain-to-tease-gemini-4-argon",
        "published": "2026-09-30T21:24:58.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "TechCrunch",
        "title": "Google releases Gemini 4 Argon, called its most powerful model yet",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/30/google-releases-gemini-4-argon-called-its-most-powerful-model-yet",
        "published": "2026-09-30T23:43:07.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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