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watch now Alphabet unveiled Gemini 4 Argon on Wednesday, its most advanced artificial intelligence model yet, offering major improvements in coding, cybersecurity, and complex professional work. The company said the model sets a new record in real-world software engineering, ties for first in cybersecurity, and leads another benchmark measuring performance across finance, legal, and other professional tasks. Argon is already being used internally to optimize memory at Google's data centers, freeing up hundreds of terabytes of memory without buying additional hardware, the company said.
Quantum computing researchers have also utilized the model. Google said it plans to launch the new model in phases, starting with trusted cybersecurity partners while working with the U.S. government on pre-release safety evaluations. "Starting this rollout in this way gives us more confidence, but also enables us to put a model that is trained and strong in cyber defense in the hands of defenders as soon as possible," Tulsee Doshi, Google's Gemini model product lead, told CNBC.
The model release comes a day after CEO Sundar Pichai signed a voluntary safety accord with President Donald Trump following a meeting with major tech executives at the White House to address rising AI safety concerns. Gemini 4 launches nearly a year after Gemini 3 put the tech company back at the forefront of the AI model race. The long-awaited model release represents a major push at the frontier and follows a recent pivot toward scaling faster, lower-cost flash models.
Google on Wednesday said it's looking to scale safeguards in four key areas, including misuse and prompt injection, before launching publicly. Doshi referred to Gemini 4 as an "incredibly well-rounded" model that's strong at running long, multi-step tasks. The company also said the new model offers a major step up in cybersecurity capabilities from its 3.8 Flash Cyber model, released earlier this month , and outperforms in vulnerability discovery.
"We really believe that a model of this caliber and this level of frontier performance is meaningfully important for defenders," Doshi said. Argon also ties with OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra and Grok 4.7 on cybersecurity evaluation benchmarks and ahead of GPT-6 Astra and Anthropic's Fable 5.1 on the Vals Index. Read more CNBC tech news Zuckerberg, Amodei among tech executives set to meet Trump Tuesday OpenAI sparked Hugging Face bids with early investment offer ahead of Nvidia's $13 billion deal Nvidia releases software platform to stop AI agents from misbehaving SpaceX launches its massive Starship rocket into orbit for the first time
Source: cnbc.com
