# SiliconANGLE — Google’s new frontier AI model Gemini 4 Argon goes to cybersecurity defenders first

- Company: SiliconANGLE (siliconangle.com)
- Announced: 2026-09-30T22:31:12+00:00
- Category: new-model
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: models
- Source: https://siliconangle.com/2026/09/30/googles-new-frontier-ai-model-gemini-4-argon-goes-to-cybersecurity-defenders-first/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/15490-google-s-new-frontier-ai-model-gemini-4-argon-goes-to-cybersecurity-defenders
- Subject: Reporting
- Models affected: Gemini 4 Argon, Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Astra
- Pricing: Argon will cost $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens at launch, and cached input is priced 95% lower. Anthropic charges $4 and $20 for Opus 5.5, and Argon moves to those rates when the launch pricing ends.

Google began rolling out Gemini 4 Argon, a frontier AI model, to vetted cybersecurity defenders in its Fairwind Program. The model outperforms Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 and OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra on most of Google's benchmarks, scoring 77.9% on DeepSWE v1.1 and 51.3% on AutomationBench. Argon has a 1 million token output limit and is priced at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens at launch, with cached input 95% lower.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://siliconangle.com/2026/09/30/googles-new-frontier-ai-model-gemini-4-argon-goes-to-cybersecurity-defenders-first/:

> Google LLC today began rolling out Gemini 4 Argon, a frontier artificial intelligence model that beats rival models from Anthropic PBC and OpenAI Group PBC on most of Google’s benchmarks, to vetted cybersecurity defenders.

---

Record: https://forck.live/items/15490-google-s-new-frontier-ai-model-gemini-4-argon-goes-to-cybersecurity-defenders
Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt
Current issue: https://forck.live/feed.md