Thursday, 1 October 2026

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Gemini 4 Argon: our next era of frontier intelligence

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," according to chief AI architect and Google DeepMind SVP Koray Kavukcuoglu. But the company is limiting access at first to a "set…

Thursday, 1 October 2026

Gemini 4 Argon: our next era of frontier intelligence

Introducing Clef: our open-source decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform

Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots

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