Gemini 4 Argon(blog.google)
1684 points by bradleyg223 13 days ago | 1173 comments
tl;dr: Google announced Gemini 4 Argon, a frontier model with a 1M output token limit, priced at $2/M input and $10/M output tokens, initially rolling out to trusted cyber defenders before wider release. It claims state-of-the-art results on benchmarks like DeepSWE v1.1 (77.9%), LVBench (91.7%), and CWE-bench v1 (68%), and is already being used internally at Google for tasks like C++ to Rust migrations and data center memory optimization. Google is also releasing it without cyber guardrails to trusted defenders and emphasizing new safeguards against misuse, prompt injection, and misalignment.
HN Discussion:
  • ↑Personal anecdote showcasing impressive Gemini capabilities reinforces the model's power claims
  • •The leapfrogging competition disproves winner-takes-all AI theories, suggesting a distributed market
  • ↓Frustration that the model isn't actually available to paying subscribers
  • ↑The C++ to Rust migration at scale is the truly significant announcement here
  • ~Google should open-source Gemini weights to undermine competitors