Google launches Gemini 4 Argon with limited access for cyber defenders

“If they can pull it off on core C++ libraries en masse, I don't know if C++ will still be relevant in a few years.”

“Argon will launch at an introductory price of $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, with cached input tokens priced at 95% off input token price. Wow”

“More labs at the frontier is wonderful for consumers (competition) and the world (reduction in concentration of power).”

“You love to see it!”

“Absolute Gemini shocker. Why did Google flatten OpenAI out of the blue? They’ve been sneaky. Lurking in the dark. Did they crack something crucial in iteration? Is Google already sentient”

“Google isn't just selling a model; it's selling the internal efficiency it already uses.”

“Competition makes the whole field more interesting.”

“If these benchmarks hold up, Google just shipped the frontier model to beat.”

“Until now, autonomous AI agents have struggled with long, complex tasks. When running workflows over several hours, they often lose track of instructions, distort facts, or go off on irrelevant tangents. Argon promises to fix that.”

“Expected to improve code generation, reasoning, and integration into applications across software and game development workflows.”

“Google's new Gemini 4 Argon could put the company back on the AI frontier”

“GEMINI 4 argon. thenewstack.io/google-gemin... Once again we have safety theater over rolling release. This is cringe behavior and must end. Release the model as widely and cheaply as possible, or it’s too dangerous for anyone to use. Pick one, don’t”

“How is it even possible for every model to release benchmark results where they are #1 in 75% of categories?”

“Only theory is team wanted this out before perf/promo reviews to kick it over the line and then its not their problem”

“Gemini is so far behind that it is effectively useless compared to Claude.”

“Gemini not beating the "can't release a model" allegations”

“At this point I just think they are benchmaxxing and all talk and no action.”

“Why announce this if it’s not available yet? Why not at least announce when it will be released to the public? None of the other AI labs do this. Really frustrating.”

“This would explain why benchmarks are seemingly meaningless.”

“In the vein of AI making everything better 🙄 today google discontinued their google assistant that we used to verbally add things to a grocery list. Instead you now have to use Gemini which cannot complete the same task.”

“Like not only did google force "upgrade" my voice control from Assistant to Gemini, half the time when I tell it to play a song in the car it tells me it can't or gives me a lecture on safe”

“Our departmental staffing has been cut down to 2/3 or 1/2 its historic level depending on when you measure from and we’ve been told basically never to expect another tenure line, but i can have free chatGPT to go with”

“congratulations to people who work at google though on being allowed to use a model from 2026”

“Google forced Gemini to take over my navigation in the car and now I just manually enter my address because it's a useless sack of shit. They replaced a perfectly working assistant with slop”

“AI seems more distributed amongst neoclouds and traditional hyperscalers, FAANG and startups, GPUs and ASICs than it did this time a year ago. Nobody has a moat.”

“Google is getting punished for not letting the models enter an echo chamber and go faster than humanly possible.”

“Google is not letting outside people use their models because if they did they would have to scale up their TPU production faster than they can manage”

“Gemini 4 Argon is launching first in a limited capacity so Google can make sure it’s not misaligned. www.theverge.com/tech/1002980...”

“Gemini 4 Argon will only be released to a vetted group of cybersecurity experts to avoid misuse by hackers”

“die Benchmarks zeigen Lücken gegenüber GPT-6 Astra und Claude Sonnet 5.5”

“some Google employees say Gemini 4 performs well on benchmarks but struggles with some real-world coding tasks; Google disputes that characterization”

“Google stands by Gemini 4 performance as some claim it ‘struggles’ in real-world use”

“Gemini "Argon" 4 looks quite strong . Still not fully there on coding.”

“Gemini 4 Argon must reverse Google’s AI inertia”

“Gemini doing reasonably well on the Hacking bench”

“Just capacity constraints? Maybe they use it once those are resolved?”