Google’s new model reaches only trusted cyber defenders.

Paid API customers and Ultra subscribers are next, at $2 per million input tokens.

Argon is in the US government’s voluntary pre-release process, and Fairwind partners get it without cyber guardrails.

Google’s own benchmarks put Argon ahead on DeepSWE at 77.9%, but behind GPT-6 Astra on FrontierSWE v2.

Sundar Pichai gave no release date, saying only Google will ship it as soon as it safely can.

How each outlet framed it

drawn from 100+ reports worldwide

The Times of India
benchmarks Gemini 4 Argon vs Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra; Argon leads legal tasks (19.6% vs 5.4%)

Sources: The Times of India