Friday, October 2, 2026
Google DeepMind announced Gemini 4 Argon (Sept 30): frontier model rolled out first to cyber defenders via the Fairwind program (unguarded version); benchmarks: 77.9% DeepSWE v1.1, Text Arena top at 1525 (20 clear of Opus 4.6 High), 1M-token output (up from 64K); pricing $2/$10 per M tokens intro, 95% off cached inputs, rates double when intro ends; Bloomberg-reported caveat from employees that real coding work lags benchmarks, disputed by Google Cohere Embed 5 (Oct 1): new family of embeddings models powering enterprise search/retrieval New Muse abilities: no brand-new Muse launch since Sept
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