Gemini 4 Argon Is Here but YOU Can’t You Use It!?
Gemini 4 Argon is Google’s new frontier AI model, but who actually gets access first? We go through the full announcement, its benchmark results against Astra and Opus, early community examples, the one million output token limit, and the API pricing footnote. Google says broader access is rolling out soon, starting with Google AI Ultra subscribers and paid API customers. We’ll keep posting updates as the rollout progresses. 🔔 SUBSCRIBE TO BYTEFORWARD AI news, coding agents, model comparisons, benchmarks, and the things people are actually building: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGGHPOAzUaKsSc2yjsOeAFQ?sub_confirmation=1 00:00 Google announces Gemini 4 Argon 00:31 Who gets access first 01:17 What rolling out soon means 01:40 What Google is using Argon for 02:04 Memory savings and quantum research 03:02 The faster video decoder 03:36 One million output tokens 04:04 Work and legal benchmarks 05:00 Coding scores and tradeoffs 05:31 Science and visual understanding 06:01 Early Gemini community builds 07:42 Cyber defenders get access first 08:08 The hospital software finding 08:37 Security benchmarks 09:12 Four safeguards before wider access 10:44 API pricing and the footnote 11:17 What comes next Official announcement and benchmarks https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-4-argon/ https://deepmind.google/models/evals-methodology/gemini-4-argon My earlier Gemini leak coverage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_XP3QlEOxQ Featured community examples Bee — https://x.com/thtbee_/status/2105320019920080921 Lumina — https://x.com/LuminaBench/status/2104951294842544206 Iam_ — https://x.com/SPAC89/status/2105393654504272096 Binkg, with credit to Inmerson — https://x.com/dummerspast39/status/2105414389142835310 Opening AI parody by Gamingtronium https://x.com/Gamingtronium/status/2105068944679981519 The early Arena examples are credited as Gemini 4 Pro checkpoints. The controller is labeled Argon by its creator. Benchmark numbers shown are from Google’s published comparison. Access and pricing reflect the September 30 announcement, including its introductory pricing footnote. #Gemini4 #Gemini #GoogleAI
