Google and Meta launch frontier AI models challenging OpenAI and Anthropic

Google unveiled Gemini 4 Argon, claiming it matches or beats flagship models from OpenAI and Anthropic across benchmarks, while pricing it aggressively at up to 80 percent less per token during its introductory period. Meta also released Muse Wonder Full, which the company claims can compete with top industry models. This development reignites the AI race, challenging the previous dominance of OpenAI and Anthropic, especially after Google had shown incremental improvements since releasing Gemini 3 late last year.