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Illustration of an argon atom, element 18, next to the words Gemini 4 Argon and three highlights: answers up to 1 million tokens long, cyber defenders get it first, already rewriting Google's own code.
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Gemini 4 Argon: Google's AI that thinks in million-token answers

Google's new frontier model can write answers about 15 times longer than before, goes to cyber defenders first, and is already rewriting Google's own code. Here is what it has done, and why it is different.

Pravesh Srivastava · 2 October 2026 · 6 min read
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