Sundar Pichai: Argon is with the US government and rolling out responsibly
Sundar Pichai @sundarpichaiX
Why it matters
First-hand CEO statement that the model was given to the US government before release and that access is staged for safety reasons.
Summary
Second post in Pichai’s launch thread: Argon has frontier safeguards, is ‘with the US gov’t’ and goes to a set of trusted cyber defenders via the Fairwind Program first; Google will make it available ‘as soon as we can and as safely as we can’ and will iterate rapidly.
Archived text
Importantly Argon has frontier safeguards and we are rolling it out responsibly - it’s with the US gov’t and going to a set of trusted cyber defenders through our Fairwind Program today.
We’re going to make it available as soon as we can and as safely as we can. So hold tight, lots more coming, and you’re going to see us iterating rapidly.
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-4-argon/