Gemini 4 Argon: our next era of frontier intelligence
Gemini 4 Argon: our next era of frontier intelligence
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Key points
- Today, we’re announcing our new frontier model, Gemini 4 Argon, which is rolling out to a set of trusted cyber defenders through our Fairwind Program.
- GDM last shipped a larger-than-Flash model in February (3.1 Pro), and after successive incremental 3.x Flash versions and the big GDM management shakeup last month, the largest question for GDM was when they would catch up to peers who have in the meantime launched Fable and Astra class models.
- Well, Argon’s here, with VERY respectable benchmarks (SOTA in 13 of 19 credible benchmarks)... but only accessible in limited cybersecurity preview, though access is promised “as soon as possible”:
- In this video, I look at the pre-announced Gemini 4 Argon.
Sources (5)
- [1]Gemini 4 Argon: our next era of frontier intelligenceGoogle DeepMind Blog · Sep 30, 08:01 PM
Gemini 4 Argon: our next era of frontier intelligence
Today, we’re announcing our new frontier model, Gemini 4 Argon, which is rolling out to a set of trusted cyber defenders through our Fairwind Program.
- [2][AINews] Gemini 4 Argon: GDM’s answer to Astra/Fable, with 1M outputLatent Space · Oct 1, 06:45 AM
GDM last shipped a larger-than-Flash model in February (3.1 Pro), and after successive incremental 3.x Flash versions and the big GDM management shakeup last month, the largest question for GDM was when they would catch up to peers who have in the meantime launched Fable and Astra class models.
Well, Argon’s here, with VERY respectable benchmarks (SOTA in 13 of 19 credible benchmarks)... but only accessible in limited cybersecurity preview, though access is promised “as soon as possible”:
- [3]Gemini 4 ArgonSam Witteveen (YouTube) · Oct 1, 01:00 PM
In this video, I look at the pre-announced Gemini 4 Argon.
- [4]AI #188: Gemini Dot ArgonDon't Worry About the Vase (Zvi) · Oct 1, 02:56 PM
- [5]AI Frontier: Google Gemini-4 ArgonAI Supremacy · Oct 1, 09:40 AM
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