India, Oct. 1 -- Google may have taken its time, but seems to have delivered a resounding response in the race for the most advanced artificial intelligence (AI; now called Super Intelligence, or SI) models yet. The Gemini 4 Argon model is now in the hands of what Google calls 'a set of trusted cyber defenders', and is working with the U.S. government's voluntary process for pre-release model access. That means, not everyone can access Gemini 4 Argon just yet. This is Google's response to OpenAI GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1 models.

"To support Gemini 4 Argon's capabilities across longer, more complex use cases, we are significantly expanding the model's output token limit to an industry-leading 1M tokens, up from the previous 64K tok...