Google launches flagship AI model Gemini 4 Argon for developers, businesses

The Gemini app icon on a smartphone in this illustration taken October 27, 2025. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration

Oct 13 (Reuters) - Alphabet's Google ⁠on Wednesday released its flagship AI model Gemini 4 Argon to ⁠developers and businesses worldwide, seeking to regain ground against rivalsOpenAI ‌and Anthropic after months of delays and a leadership shakeup at its DeepMind lab.

The model excels at "deep work" on complex,multi-step tasks in coding, finance, law, cybersecurity and science, Google ​said. API pricing at launch starts at $2 per ⁠million input tokens and $10 per ⁠million output tokens, with rates set to double after November 30.

The release ⁠follows ‌a rocky stretch inGoogle's AI efforts. The company announced in September that it no longer planned to release Gemini 3.5 Pro, ⁠which CEO Sundar Pichai had originally said would be ​released in June.

It ‌also overhauledDeepMind after the AI lab's co-founder and CEODemis Hassabis stepped ⁠aside and several ​leaders of its Gemini model left the company.

Argon is available to paying customers through the company's AI application building tools. Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers ⁠can access it through the Gemini app ​and AI Mode in Search, while theAntigravity coding tool is limited to Ultra subscribers.

Teams using Argon in Antigravity increased agentic code submissions by more than ⁠35%, while reducing code rollbacks by nearly a third, Google said.

Customers testing the model early include Deloitte,LexisNexis, Ambience Healthcare and Isomorphic Labs.

Meanwhile, Google said it would open itsFairwind Program to hundreds of additional partners. The program gives ​vettedcybersecurity defenders a version of Argon without ⁠its cyber guardrails. In September, the company had said it was providing the ​model to select cybersecurity partners.

Separately, Google will ‌offer 10,000 scientists six months of free ​access to Antigravity's highest usage tier.

(Reporting by Kenrick Cai in San Francisco and Prathik Jayaprakash in Bengaluru; Editing by Jonathan Ananda)

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这张插图拍摄于2025年10月27日，展示了智能手机上的Gemini应用程序图标。路透社/Dado Ruvic/插图

10 月 13 日（路透社）——Alphabet 旗下的谷歌周三向全球开发者和企业发布了其旗舰人工智能模型 Gemini 4 Argon，试图在经历了数月的延误以及其 DeepMind 实验室领导层重组后，重新夺回与竞争对手 OpenAI 和 Anthropic 的市场份额。

谷歌表示，该模型擅长处理编码、金融、法律、网络安全和科学等领域的复杂多步骤任务，尤其擅长“深度工作”。API 的初始定价为每百万个输入令牌 2 美元，每百万个输出令牌 10 美元，11 月 30 日之后价格将翻倍。

此次发布是在谷歌人工智能领域经历了一段坎坷时期之后进行的。该公司在9月份宣布，不再计划发布Gemini 3.5 Pro，而首席执行官桑达尔·皮查伊最初曾表示该产品将于6月份发布。

在人工智能实验室 DeepMind 的联合创始人兼首席执行官 Demis Hassabis 卸任，以及其 Gemini 模型的几位领导者离开公司之后，该公司也对 DeepMind 进行了彻底的改革。

Argon 可通过 Google 的 AI 应用构建工具向付费用户开放。Google AI Pro 和 Ultra 订阅用户可通过 Gemini 应用和搜索中的 AI 模式访问 Argon，而 Antigravity 编码工具仅限 Ultra 订阅用户使用。

谷歌表示，在 Antigravity 中使用 Argon 的团队，其代理代码提交量增加了 35% 以上，同时代码回滚次数减少了近三分之一。

早期测试该模型的客户包括德勤、LexisNexis、Ambience Healthcare 和 Isomorphic Labs。

与此同时，谷歌表示将向数百家合作伙伴开放其 Fairwind 项目。该项目为经过审核的网络安全防御者提供一个不带网络安全防护功能的 Argon 版本。今年 9 月，谷歌曾表示将向部分网络安全合作伙伴提供该模型。

此外，谷歌还将为 10,000 名科学家提供六个月免费使用 Antigravity 最高使用级别的权限。

（旧金山的 Kenrick Cai 和班加罗尔的 Prathik Jayaprakash 报道；Jonathan Ananda 编辑）

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