Frontier Model

Google releases Gemini 4 Argon worldwide, saying Argon cut coding tasks from months to weeks: Google released Gemini 4 Argon worldwide via its API, Gemini app, and Google Antigravity. It is aggressively priced but trails Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 and Meta's Muse Wonder Full in independent benchmarks. Google says Argon internally cut coding tasks from months to weeks.

AI Models • The Decoder

Google DeepMind, Google Cloud to give up to 200 European scientists frontier model access: Google DeepMind and Google Cloud will provide up to 200 top European scientific researchers with direct access to their frontier models. The support also includes $3 million in compute credits.

Google DeepMind • Tech.eu

Gemini 4 Argon: Google has pre-announced its upcoming frontier-level artificial intelligence model, Gemini 4 Argon. While public outputs are not yet available, the model introduces architectural and performance changes aimed at positioning Google back among the top three AI research labs.

Google • Sam Witteveen