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Google releases Gemini 4 Argon, called its most powerful model yet
Argon is only being rolled out to a select group of the company’s cyber partners through its Fairwind Program, Google’s security initiative.
Not long ago, OpenAIreleased Astra— which it hailed as its best model yet. Earlier this year,Anthropic’s Fablewas also released with similar rhetoric from the company.Firms have done their best to market their services as superior to their competitors. In its blog, Google claims that Argon scored significantly higher than OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra and Anthropic’s Fable and Opus models across a variety of AI benchmarks.
It cites Vals — an increasingly popularAI benchmarking startup— to show that Argon is currently the leading model on the company’s AI model index.Once considered “behind” in the AI…
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