Gemini 4 Argon(deepmind.google)
1335 points by 737max 19 hours ago | 928 comments
tl;dr: Google released Gemini 4 Argon, a frontier model with 1M output tokens aimed at long-horizon scientific, coding, and agentic tasks, claiming top scores on benchmarks like Vals Index, Harvey's Legal Agent, LVBench, and tying for #1 on CWE-Bench for vulnerability remediation. Partners including Isomorphic Labs, Box, Deloitte, and Wiz report gains in drug discovery, enterprise analysis, and cybersecurity, and the model demonstrated sim-to-real transfer by teaching an Apptronik humanoid to play cornhole from video. It's available now to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers.
HN Discussion:
  • ~Independent benchmarks show Argon is behind the frontier, not clearly leading as claimed
  • ↑The model excels at writing, reasoning, and producing clear, well-structured prose
  • ↑Google's consistency in multimodality, context size, and pricing deserves appreciation
  • ↑Argon offers a strong cost/intelligence Pareto improvement, putting Google back in the race
  • •Models are becoming commoditized, hurting providers' differentiation and staying power