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Gemini 4 Argon opens to paid API users and the Gemini app
Two weeks after its limited debut, Google made Gemini 4 Argon broadly available: in the Gemini API for paid tiers, in Antigravity for Ultra subscribers, and in the Gemini app for Google AI Pro and Ultra.
Source: Google blog
Google Cloud introduces the Gemini agent for work
Announced at Gemini at Work 2026, the agent takes tasks from one prompt box, uses a company's business systems and returns results in the documents and tools people already use.
Source: Google blog
Google opens its SynthID Detector to everyone
Anyone can now upload an image, video or audio file to check for SynthID watermarks from Google and partner tools. The detector is available globally in English.
Source: Google blog
Google releases EmbeddingGemma 2 as an open multimodal embedding model
The roughly 740M-parameter model maps text, code, images, video and audio into one embedding space and ships under Apache 2.0 on Hugging Face and Kaggle.
Source: Google blog
Independent tests put Gemini 4 Argon level with GPT-6 Astra
Artificial Analysis scored Argon (high) at 53 on its Intelligence Index, equal to GPT-6 Astra at max effort. Vals AI placed it first on the Vals Index in results dated 30 September.
Source: Artificial Analysis
Google announces Gemini 4 Argon, first for vetted cyber defenders
Google's new frontier model raises the output limit to 1M tokens. It went first to trusted defenders in the Fairwind Program, with wider release planned after testing.
Source: Google blog
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