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Google announces Gemini 4 and says it’s so capable that only ‘trusted cyber defenders’ can have it right now
Source: The Verge · Published
Google today revealed its next AI frontier model, which it's calling Gemini 4 Argon. The new model delivers "frontier performance in complex workflows across real-world software engineering, enterprise knowledge work like legal and finance, and cybersecurity defense," according t
Google today revealed its next AI frontier model, which it's calling Gemini 4 Argon. The new model delivers "frontier performance in complex workflows across real-world software engineering, enterprise knowledge work like legal and finance, and cybersecurity defense," according to chief AI architect and Google DeepMind SVP Koray Kavukcuoglu. But the company is limiting access at first to a "set of trusted cyber defenders," and Kavukcuoglu says that Google is "actively engaged in the U.S.
government's voluntary process for pre-release model access while we gradually expand access." Kavukcuoglu says Gemini 4 Argon is already powering Google's … Read the full story at The Verge.
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