AI & Technology

Argon extends output, with cyber defenders first in line

Sundar Pichai · @sundarpichai
1 Oct 2026, 04:02 (UTC+8)
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Pichai, Hassabis and DeepMind announced Gemini 4 Argon for coding, enterprise work and cyber defense. Its first cohort consists of trusted Fairwind testers; broader access is still ahead.

The output ceiling rises from 64,000 to one million tokens. This concerns long generated trajectories, rather than a new input-context limit. Feedback from early users is intended to strengthen safeguards before the wider rollout.

Google reports internal agents freeing over 300 TiB of memory and migrating C/C++ projects toward Rust, including kernel work. Those rewrites still undergo automated testing and human audits. Longer autonomous work retains an acceptance step.

The announced 77.9% on DeepSWE v1.1 measures long-horizon software engineering tasks. These are Google-reported evaluations, not an independent replication or a success rate for every repository.

The planned wider release begins with paid API customers and Google AI Ultra subscribers. Announced introductory prices are $2/$10 per million input/output tokens, then $4/$20, with a 95% cached-input discount. Neither pricing nor the announcement establishes general availability.

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