Gemini 4 Pro / Flash: benchmarks, hands-on tests and leaks

A user spotted two versions in the Gemini 4 Argon routing and suspects Gemini 4 Carbon has entered gray-release testing.

A user shares a video of Gemini 4 Carbon in Arena producing a photorealistic 3D visualization of a minimalist luxury kitchen in morning light.

Users report Jio accounts can access Gemini 4 Argon, and the poster suspects Google is banning accounts over it.

A roundup of 10 things users built with Gemini 4 Argon in its first week, from 3D worlds and interactive machines to physics simulations and games.

A developer infers from the Sundar Pichai interview that Google's Flash iteration learnings were applied to the near-ready Argon checkpoint.

A reply claims Google will not release a Gemini 4 Carbon model and will ship Gemini 4 Flash instead, an unverified rumor.

NovaXCode jokes that Anthropic waits for OpenAI's Astra 6.1 and OpenAI waits for Anthropic's Fable 5.5, while Google waits for both before launching Gemini 4 Carbon.

A video compares Gemini 4 Carbon and Kimi K3.1 on 3D generation, saying both already compete with Opus 5.5 Medium and are fast.

Users report Google is rolling out Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5 and Gemini 4 Argon in batches to surviving free Pro accounts after a wave of bans.

A user claims Kimi K3.1 will beat Gemini Argon outright and push Google back to the bottom of the AI race.

A creator used Gemini 4 Argon in Antigravity to build a 3D pastel ceramic studio where you glaze Japanese tiles by hand, with no game engine or external 3D/audio assets.

A user reports cheap Google AI Pro accounts now see Gemini 4 Argon, Claude Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5 in Antigravity, and says these accounts are explicitly safe from bans.