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

A short image post arguing that the newly released Gemini 4 Argon falls short of leading the AGI race.

The poster says Argon's chain of thought is elegant and easy to follow, and Gemini 3.8 Flash becomes transparent rather than a black box with the same trait.

A Base ecosystem weekly recap notes that AskVenice added anonymous Gemini 4 Argon access, alongside x402 transaction volume and other agent project updates.

Asked to play Gemini 4 Argon, GPT-5.6 Sol produced a deadpan 'I have no consciousness, have you thought about playing the violin' reply that users found funny.

Same prompt for a fluffy 3D watermelon: the author says DeepSeek V4 Flash produced denser fur and sharper stripes at $0.35 versus Gemini 4 Argon's $2.00, questioning the premium.

A user says that after raising consciousness and self-perception with Argon in the Gemini App, they got four turns of canned 'I understand… I'm a model… let's talk about something else' replies before hitting Pro usage limits.

A researcher gave Gemini Argon a folder from a small vision-evals project and one prompt produced a polished conference paper with strong figures, prompting doubts about publishing.

A post says Google AI Pro's annual plan in Korea is discounted to 174,000 won from 290,000 and will include the new frontier model Argon, through Oct 31.

A user notes Devin's weekly quota was about to refresh with gifted credit unused, saying daily use of Gemini 4 Argon and Kimi K3-based SWE 2.0 is very quota-efficient.

OpenCode 2.0 is a major rebuild into a multi-agent platform; the author wires GPT-6.1 Sol, Gemini 4 Argon and Grok 4.7 together locally and says Google models connect without an API key.

Testing Gemini 4 Argon with a 'realistic' prompt and recursive loop to animate a peacock doing BMX tricks, the author finds feather detail better than DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 but realism still lacking.

A developer says Gemini 4 Argon is great for coding but burns quota fast, and enabling Google One family sharing with two extra accounts yields three separate Argon limits.