Gemini 4 Argon: our next era of frontier intelligence

Introducing Gemini 4 Argon

Gemini 4 Argon: our next era of frontier intelligence

Sep 30, 2026

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Gemini 4 Argon delivers frontier performance in complex workflows across real-world software engineering, enterprise knowledge work like legal and finance, and cybersecurity defense.

Koray Kavukcuoglu

SVP, Google DeepMind and Chief AI Architect, Google

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Google’s new Gemini 4 Argon model brings advanced reasoning to complex, long-horizon professional tasks.

The model features an industry-leading 1 million token limit for deep, multi-step problem solving.

It excels at coding, financial research, legal drafting, and autonomous cybersecurity vulnerability patching.

Argon is currently rolling out to trusted cyber defenders through the Fairwind Program.

Google is prioritizing safety and rigorous testing before a wider release to the public.

Summaries were generated by Google AI. Generative AI is experimental.

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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 . Built to sustain deep reasoning across complex, long-horizon workflows, Argon is fundamentally changing the way we work and build at Google. It delivers frontier performance in complex workflows across real-world software engineering, enterprise knowledge work like legal and finance, and cybersecurity defense. Safely releasing frontier capabilities at this level requires a phased approach. We are actively engaged in the U.S. government’s voluntary process for pre-release model access while we gradually expand access. We’ll continue to gather feedback from early testers as we iterate on guardrails before making Argon available to developers, enterprises, and consumers as soon as possible. Argon will launch at an introductory price

1 of $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, with cached input tokens priced at 95% off input token price.

Changing how we work and build at Google Gemini 4 Argon is already powering our internal workflows, with thousands of Googlers highlighting the model’s strengths in specialized coding tasks, conducting deeper research, and writing quality. It’s helping teams build faster and push the boundaries of engineering productivity and accelerating breakthroughs:

Quantum algorithmic optimization: Argon is helping our quantum computing researchers optimize the spacetime resources (qubits × gates) of subroutines that bottleneck important applications. In one example, it beat the published baseline by 40% in a matter of minutes.

Memory efficiency: A team of Argon agents analyzed fleet-wide profiling telemetry to autonomously identify and apply memory optimizations across Google’s data centers, freeing up over 300 TiB of memory once rolled out, with an estimated 500 TiB to 1 PiB in total savings.

Large Scale Codebase Migrations and Optimizations: Argon agents are working on migrating C/C++ codebases to Rust across Google — scaling from tens of thousands of lines in core libraries like re2, libgav1 up to 800K+ lines for the Fuchsia Zircon kernel. Given the criticality of many of these systems, such large-scale rewrites are undergoing rigorous automated and manual auditing, emulation testing, and review before rolling out to production.

For libgav1, Google's open source software for decoding video, Argon agents took an existing Rust port and replaced 32K lines of SIMD code by running many rounds of profile-guided experiments, studying the compiler's output, producing safe Rust so the compiler would vectorize it automatically. The end result is a memory-safe video decoder that runs 2.7x faster than the Rust port, with identical video output, bringing it closer to the optimized C++.

Working harder on your most complex problems To support Gemini 4 Argon’s capabilities across longer, more complex use cases, we are significantly expanding the model’s output token limit to an industry-leading 1M tokens, up from the previous 64K tokens. When the model has the headroom to think deeply and generate hundreds of thousands of tokens in a single trajectory, it adds a new level of depth in reasoning to solve tough problems in one go.

Enabling coding and enterprise workflows across domains Gemini 4 Argon’s capabilities across coding, reasoning, and multimodality and its ability to sustain long, multi-step tasks enable it to excel across a range of enterprise workflows. Google engineers have been using Argon for their daily tasks, from everyday debugging to large-scale codebase migrations and algorithm designs. It sets a new state of the art on DeepSWE v1.1 (77.9%), which measures a model’s performance in real-world long-horizon software engineering tasks. Beyond coding, Argon is the leading model on the Vals Index , which measures economic impact across finance, coding, legal, and tax work, with every sector weighted by its contribution to U.S. GDP. We see similarly leading performance across other domain specific evaluations, like Vals Finance Agent v2 (multi-step financial research) and Harvey’s Legal Agent Benchmark (legal research and drafting). On AutomationBench, Zapier’s benchmark measuring end-to-end execution across core business functions, Argon ranks #1 with a score of 51.3%. Argon is also uniquely strong when knowledge work requires visual understanding. It’s able to drive professional chart analysis, identify details from long videos, and take action based on a series of documents. For example, on LVBench, which measures long video understanding, Argon is state of the art with a score of 91.7%.

Leading in defensive cybersecurity To better equip cyber defenders for the new era of cyberattacks, we trained Gemini 4 Argon to be highly capable at cybersecurity defense. Argon can autonomously find, validate, and patch critical software vulnerabilities. For trusted defenders and our own internal teams at Google, we’ll be releasing Argon without cyber guardrails so they can leverage its full frontier-level cybersecurity defense capabilities. Wiz is already using Argon for...