Google unveils Gemini 4 Argon, its first new flagship AI model in nearly a year

Google unveiled Gemini 4 Argon, aimed at software engineering, knowledge work and cybersecurity. It is going first to a limited group of cybersecurity partners, with wider access after more testing. Google says it beats OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra on several benchmarks. Bloomberg reported some Google employees were skeptical of its performance in internal testing; Google disputed that.