Jay Peters is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme.

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.

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 “internal workflows,” highlighting how the model has helped with tasks like large-scale codebase migrations. Google also shared a big chart showing many benchmarks where Gemini 4 fares better than competing models from OpenAI and Anthropic.

) Google will be strengthening “critical frontier safeguards” before a broader rollout, including defending against misuse and prompt injection attacks and monitoring for misalignment. 1 Sol AI model.

) It’s also arriving soon after Kavukcuoglu’s appointment as the new boss of DeepMind in August. Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.