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

An October 5 AI morning roundup says Gemini 4 Argon has been added to the API docs and could reach general availability as soon as next week, with strong benchmark results and a major release that skips smaller versions.

A Dune-themed Gemini 4 Argon generated video demo showcasing the model's video or creative generation output.

A user used Gemini 4 Argon to build a Minecraft × Star Wars scene inside a single HTML file, calling the result insanely realistic.

A post with an image asks directly whether Gemini 4 Argon is that good, reflecting观望-style discussion around the Argon codename, reportedly Gemini 4 Pro.

A Turkish user says Gemini 4 Argon has no chance and is dead on arrival, arguing that even with price-performance appeal it faces GPT models and Luna.

A screenshot compares Gemini 4 Argon and Opus 4.8 on Agent Arena, a signal of the new model codenames being tested in the arena.

Someone spotted a new gemini-eap entry in Google Cloud quotas and speculates that eap means early access program and may point to Gemini 4 Argon.

A video puts Gemini 4 Argon and Opus 5.5 side by side for a head-to-head comparison.

A side-by-side video compares Gemini 4 Argon and Opus 5.5, citing Claude's official post to show how the two models' outputs differ.

A user says the other person has a Gemini 4 Argon checkpoint in the Gemini app and asks them to try an HTML prompt that generates midnight Atlantic ocean sounds.

The poster complains that Google keeps delaying releases and suspects Gemini 4 Argon may be scrapped like other projects, calling the company dishonest.

A Google employee disputes the Bloomberg report, saying Gemini 4 Argon has long been his main model and is particularly strong at agentic debugging and day-to-day coding.