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Google parent company Alphabet has launched<\/a> Gemini 4 Argon, a new AI model built to handle a variety of tasks such as coding, research, and writing. But it\u2019s cybersecurity that Gemini 4 Argon is supposed to have a particular knack for, according to Google. <\/p>\n Argon is only being rolled out to a select group of the company\u2019s cyber partners through its Fairwind Program, Google\u2019s security initiative. The model was trained specifically for defensive cyber work, and the company says it can \u201cautonomously find, validate, and patch critical software vulnerabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n Argon is also said to be good at coding and engineering, with the company noting that its own staff have already been using the model for their daily work, including debugging and codebase migrations. Google also touts Argon\u2019s ability to parse visuals \u2014 whether that\u2019s analyzing the contents of long videos or charts.<\/p>\n \u201cBuilt to sustain deep reasoning across complex, long-horizon workflows, Argon is fundamentally changing the way we work and build at Google,\u201d the company said in a blog post<\/a> Wednesday. <\/p>\n Top AI labs have rushed to release increasingly powerful models, attempting to outdo each other even as those very same firms warn that AI could spin out of control. Not long ago, OpenAI released Astra<\/a> \u2014 which it hailed as its best model yet. Earlier this year, Anthropic\u2019s Fable<\/a> was also released with similar rhetoric from the company. <\/p>\n Firms have done their best to market their services as superior to their competitors. In its blog, Google claims that Argon scored significantly higher than OpenAI\u2019s GPT-6 Astra and Anthropic\u2019s Fable and Opus models across a variety of AI benchmarks. It cites Vals \u2013 an increasingly popular AI benchmarking startup<\/a> \u2014\u00a0to show that Argon is currently the leading model on the company\u2019s AI model index.<\/p>\n Once considered \u201cbehind<\/a>\u201d in the \u201cAI race,\u201d Google has recently enjoyed success with Gemini. The company announced in August that its app had over a billion users per month<\/a>, a metric that makes it competitive with OpenAI, which also recently announced<\/a> that ChatGPT had reached a billion monthly users.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission<\/a>. This doesn\u2019t affect our editorial independence.<\/em><\/p>\n