Google Unveils Gemini 4 Argon, Claims It Beats OpenAI and Anthropic Flagships
GOOG sits 46% above its 52-week low of $236.685.
Summary
Google launched Gemini 4 Argon, its newest AI model, with a phased rollout starting with cybersecurity partners. The company claims internal testing shows it outperforms flagship models from OpenAI and Anthropic on knowledge work, coding, science, math, and cybersecurity tasks. Introductory pricing is $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens—half the cost of Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 and a fifth of OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra. Alphabet shares rose 1.6% after hours following a 0.9% regular-session gain. This launch directly addresses investor concerns about Google's AI competitiveness after delayed releases, researcher departures, and weak benchmark results. The model's aggressive pricing and performance claims could pressure rivals and shift market share in enterprise AI. Watch for developer and consumer availability dates and any third-party benchmark validations.
At the time of this announcement, GOOG was trading at $345.90 on NASDAQ in the Technology sector, with a market capitalization of approximately $4.2T. The 52-week trading range was $236.69 to $404.47. This news item was assessed with positive market sentiment and an importance score of 8 out of 10. Source: Dow Jones Newswires.