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Google launches Gemini 4 Argon, a frontier model aimed at coding and professional work

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Google unveiled Gemini 4 Argon, its latest frontier model, on October 13 and released it globally the same day.
The company says it is built for complex, multi-step work in coding, finance, law, cybersecurity and science.
The introductory API price is $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens; in the Gemini app it is available to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers.

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October 19

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