Google’s next big Gemini upgrade beats Claude and ChatGPT at their own game
Google has announced Gemini 4 Argon, a new frontier model that reportedly outperforms leading competitors like Claude and ChatGPT in complex reasoning tasks. The model features a significantly expanded 1 million token output limit and is currently being tested internally for data center optimizations and code migration. Public access is delayed as Google first rolls out the model to trusted cyber defenders to refine its safety safeguards before a broader release.
- ▪Gemini 4 Argon outperforms Claude Opus 5.5 and ChatGPT-6 Astra on benchmarks for knowledge work, ML engineering, and agentic coding.
- ▪The model supports a 1 million output token limit, which is a substantial increase from the previous 64K limit.
- ▪Google is initially restricting access to the Fairwind Program for cyber defenders to improve safety measures before public launch.
- ▪Introductory API pricing is set at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, with prices doubling after the introductory period.
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