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Gemini 4 Argon Ships $2 Input, 1M Token Output
Google's Gemini 4 Argon launches with $2 per million input tokens, $10 per million output tokens, and a 1M-token output limit, undercutting frontier rivals on price.
740M EmbeddingGemma 2 Maps Text, Image, Video and Audio
Google DeepMind's Apache 2.0 EmbeddingGemma 2 maps text, code, images, video and audio into one 768-dimension space, scaling from 270M to 740M parameters.
Gemini 4 Argon: 1M Output Tokens at $2/$10 Introductory Rate
Google DeepMind's Gemini 4 Argon expands output tokens 15× to 1M, scores 77.9% on DeepSWE, and launches at $2/$10 per million tokens via Fairwind Program.
SynthID Bio Watermarks AI Proteins That Still Work in the Lab
Google DeepMind's SynthID Bio embeds verifiable signatures into AI-generated protein sequences and 3D structures while preserving biological function across three wet-lab targets.
Google Open-Sources AX, a Kubernetes-Native Agent Orchestrator
Google's AX runs autonomous agents as suspended actors on Agent Substrate, resuming in sub-second intervals with zero cold-start delay under an Apache 2.0 license.
WeatherNext 3 Hits 5 km Resolution With Hourly Satellite Initialization
Google DeepMind's WeatherNext 3 resolves forecasts to 0.05° (~5 km), re-initializes every hour from live satellite data, and cuts precipitation CRPS up to 60%.
WeatherNext 3 Delivers 5x Sharper Forecasts via Live Satellite Data
Google DeepMind's WeatherNext 3 replaces NWP training data with live geostationary satellite mosaics, cutting precipitation error by up to 60% and refreshing hourly at 5 km resolution.
Gemini 3.8 Flash: Same Weights, Two Safety Envelopes, 47.2% on CWE-Bench
Google DeepMind ships Gemini 3.8 Flash and Flash Cyber on one shared core — split by safety mitigations, not architecture.
Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash: 4K Output, 360p Drafts at 1/3 Cost
Google's Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash adds 10-second scene context, first/last-frame interpolation, 4K output, and 360p drafts at one-third the cost of 720p.
Google DeepMind's Double-Blind AI Evals Use Cryptographic Isolation
Google DeepMind pilots the world's first double-blind frontier AI evaluation, using Confidential Space to cryptographically protect both model weights and test prompts.
Gemini 3.5 Transcribe Hits 2.6% WER, Cuts Latency 70% vs Chirp 3
Google's new speech-to-text model achieves 2.6% WER non-streaming and 4.0% streaming, with 70% faster time-to-final-transcription than Chirp 3.
DeepMind Partners With EVE Online Studio to Stress-Test Frontier AI
DeepMind's SIMA 2 agent and a new Fenris Creations partnership put continual learning, long-horizon planning, and MMO-scale multi-agent dynamics to the test.
Gemini 3.7 Flash: Coding and Agent Model at $0.75/1M Input Tokens
Google ships Gemini 3.7 Flash three weeks after 3.6 Flash — FrontierCode 43.6%, DeepSWE 65.3%, at $0.75/1M input until Dec 31 2026.
Google DeepMind SL2T Brings Sign Language Dictation to Pixel 11
SL2T scores 70 BLEURT zero-shot on FLEURS-ASL, ships free in Gboard and Live Transcribe on Pixel 11 across 50+ sign languages.
Google DeepMind SL2T Brings Sign Language Translation to Pixel 11
SL2T scores 70 BLEURT zero-shot on FLEURS-ASL, ships in Gboard and Live Transcribe on Pixel 11, trained on 100,000+ hours across 50+ sign languages.
Google DeepMind SL2T: Sign Language to Text at Consumer Scale
SL2T scores 70 BLEURT zero-shot on FLEURS-ASL, powering Gboard and Live Transcribe on Pixel 11 with ASL-to-English translation.