Wiz

New Capabilities

Early user of Argon through its Scan for Good initiative

Google spent 2026 shipping smaller models while OpenAI and Anthropic held the frontier. On September 30 it answered with Gemini 4 Argon, a flagship built for long, multi-step reasoning across coding, finance, legal work, and cybersecurity, restricted for now to vetted cyber defenders and U.S. government testers.

Updated Oct 1

Money Moves

Acquired by Google, operating within Google Cloud under its own brand

Wiz was founded in January 2020 by four veterans of Israel's military intelligence Unit 8200. Six years later, Google paid $32 billion in cash — the largest deal in Google's history, the largest cybersecurity acquisition ever, and more than the combined cost of its eight next-biggest purchases.

Updated May 30

Money Moves

Acquired by Google for $32 billion in March 2025

ServiceNow just agreed to pay $7.75 billion in cash for Armis, a cybersecurity startup that tracks vulnerabilities across hospital medical devices, factory equipment, and corporate networks. It's ServiceNow's largest acquisition ever—and its third billion-dollar security buy in 2025 alone. CEO Bill McDermott calls it building an "AI control tower" for cybersecurity, while Wall Street calls it a land grab.

Updated May 16