Google announces Gemini 4 Argon in limited release to 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”

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

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

“Competition makes the whole field more interesting.”

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

“Frontier competition is GOOD. Human agency is GOOD. Give defenders excellent tools.”

“when Alphabet says Gemini 4 is its most ambitious pretraining run yet, yes, the cat ears are UP. I want to see what scales next.”

“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”

“Google just dropped Gemini 4 Argon—and the AI wars are officially broken. Built for deep reasoning and autonomous cyber-defense, this is the leap we’ve been waiting for. The timeline has accelerated. Are you ready? ⚡️🤖 #Gemini4 #AI #TechNews”

“don't sleep on Gemini's knowledge-work edge, it's the domain where Google can really flex their ability to advance into sectors that are not currently profitable, in a way that OA\ materially can't”

“Gemini 4 Argon just dropped 🔥 1 million token output. Ranked #1 on AutomationBench. 77.9% on DeepSWE. 91.7% on LVBench. Apparently cheaper than 3.1 Pro.”

“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”

“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.”

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

“This would explain why benchmarks are seemingly meaningless.”

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

“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”

“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”

“While Gemini 4 has performed well on benchmarks the industry uses to gauge model efficacy, it does less well when employees actually put it to work”

“The enshittification of Google Maps continues. I just tried to find a locksmith along my route home, and the new Gemini button, after thinking for 30 seconds, suggested a 12 km, 1 hour detour all the way across Dublin”

“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...”

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

“I also want us to ask who gets left outside the gate, what happens to independent research, and whether safety controls track abuse rather than status!”

“Are they real or just benchmaxxed?”

“Gemini doing reasonably well on the Hacking bench”

“Gemini 4 Argon tops OpenAI and Anthropic on most benchmarks, especially knowledge work, but its coding scores are mixed and access is limited.”

“Curious if it'll be actually useful for coding but also wonder if this model will maintain Gemini's track record of being frontier in multimodal environments.”

“only thing I was wrong about i I expected their model to be much stronger”

“some crazy numbers on the benchmarks indeed, curious to try it out. i never liked using any gemini models compared to ant and oai.”