Google Launches Gemini 4 Argon, Claiming Top Performance Across 13 Major Benchmarks

Google has released Gemini 4 Argon, a new frontier AI model that the company says outperforms competitors on most professional benchmarks, available immediately through the Gemini API and consumer applications. Announced on September 30 and made broadly available on October 13, 2026, Argon represents Google's response to intensifying competition in frontier models from OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra and Anthropic's Fable series.