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

Sahil Panhotra argues people are sleeping on Gemini Argon 4 and says it is simply very good.

A developer shares two experiments built with Gemini 4 Argon in Google AI Studio, a seashell painting toy and a Rocket League-style game, and asks for feedback.

A Three.js comparison in Arena pits Gemini 4 Carbon against Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra, with Carbon judged to beat Opus 5.5.

A commenter argues Gemini 4 Argon is not Opus-class, so Carbon should not be expected to reach Fable-class, and calls Google an also-ran in the LLM race.

A Persian-language post praises Gemini 4 Argon as extremely good and revolutionary, without offering any concrete test details.

A user reports Google pushed a second checkpoint for Gemini 4 Carbon, mirroring Argon, while Arena still lists gemini 4 argon; they hope for faster speed.

The user reports running out of quota after only three Gemini 4 Argon conversations and would rather have Gemini 4 Flash than Carbon.

A reply claims the Pro plan gives just two Gemini 4 Argon prompts per week and suggests buying Claude instead.

French government sites went offline over two critical PHP flaws allowing remote server takeover, found by Calif with GPT-5.6 Sol and by Wiz with help from Gemini 4 Argon after roughly 14 years in the code.

A post says Gemini 4 Argon produced a 3D human body model with toggleable layers, isolated muscles and a zoomable beating heart, built from three open-source datasets.

Two critical PHP core bugs allowing unauthenticated remote code execution were found by Wiz and Google's Gemini 4 Argon; patched versions are listed.

A user spots a new Gemini 4 Carbon checkpoint on Arena and checks whether its speed improved over the slow previous one.