Google announces Gemini 4 and says it’s so capable that only ‘trusted cyber defenders’ can have it right now

<figure> <img alt="An image of the Google logo" data-caption="" data-portal-copyright="Illustration: The Verge" data-has-syndication-rights="1" src="https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/STK093_Google_02.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=0,0,100,100" /> <figcaption> </figcaption> </figure> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">Google today revealed its next AI frontier model, which it's calling Gemini 4 Argon. The new model delivers "frontier performance in complex workflows across real-world software engineering, enterprise knowledge work like legal and finance, and cybersecurity defense," <a href="https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-4-argon/">according to</a> chief AI architect and Google DeepMind SVP Koray Kavukcuoglu. But the company is limiting access at first to a "set of trusted cyber defenders," and Kavukcuoglu says that Google is "actively engaged in the U.S. government's voluntary process for pre-release model access while we gradually expand access."</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">Kavukcuoglu says Gemini 4 Argon is already powering Google's …</p> <p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/tech/1002980/google-gemini-4-argon">Read the full story at The Verge.</a></p>