Google announces Gemini 4 and says it’s so capable that only ‘trusted cyber defenders’ can have it right now

Google today revealed its next AI frontier model, which it’s calling Gemini 4 Argon. The new model delivers « frontier performance in complex workflows across real-world software engineering, enterprise knowledge work like legal and finance, and cybersecurity defense, » according to chief AI architect and Google DeepMind SVP Koray Kavukcuoglu. But the company is limiting access at first to a « set of trusted cyber defenders, » and Kavukcuoglu says that Google is « actively engaged in the U.S. government’s voluntary process for pre-release model access while we gradually expand access. »

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