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

A user reports that Argon-related strings show up when upgrading to Google AI's Ultra plan, and hopes Gemini 4 Argon opens this week.

The upgrade redirect from Antigravity to Google One carries an argon_limit_reached parameter, which one user reads as a sign that Gemini 4 Argon is coming to subscription plans soon.

A user replies to Google AI Studio and NanoBanana posts asking Google to keep its image features and release Gemini 4 Argon instead.

jon_barron discussed Jewish mysticism and Platonic solids with Gemini 4 Argon, asked it to improve sacred geometry, and got "Gemitron's Cube," shown at the angles the model liked best.

Google released EmbeddingGemma 2 (270M–740M parameters, multimodal SOTA) and a Nano Banana 2.1 image upgrade, but the poster mainly wants to know when Gemini 4 Argon arrives.

The author reads Google's Nano Banana 2.1 release as a response to OpenAI's Image 2.5 and expects a stronger Nano Banana 3 or 4 built on Gemini 4 Argon.

A user tells Google that the Pro model has gone a year without an update and is still SOTA, and hopes the Argon version of Gemini 4 Pro ships soon.

In Agent Arena's coding category, Argon places 14th, behind Fable, Astra, Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5 and both Sol models.

A complaint post says the user expected an announcement to introduce Gemini 4 Argon, but it didn't, and wonders whether Google will ever officially release Gemini 4.

A prediction market gives a 65% chance of release next Tuesday or Thursday, but the poster worries Argon won't meet expectations since testers say it seems dim.

Nano Banana 2.1 is out with no benchmarks yet, and the poster asks when Gemini 4 and Veo 4 will arrive, saying Google seems to have ceded video to SeeDance.

A short question post asking whether a certain sign means Gemini 4 Argon is already out.