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

Same prompt to Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Astra, Grok 4.7 and Gemini 4 Argon to build a lobe pump; the author says Gemini's four-blade rotors look like propellers.

On the same Night Train prompt, Gemini 4 Argon finished in 4m20s for $3.40 — faster than Terra but judged to look like a mobile game.

The author used Gemini 4 Argon to reflect on Antigravity conversation history and build a slideshow of their design process, featuring illustrated SVG wireframes.

A developer claims he turned down an offer to work on Gemini App's upcoming Argon model, citing insufficient growth, and joined Anthropic to work on Fable 6.0 instead.

A video cites Polymarket's 74% odds that no Pro model ships this year, with 3.1 Pro the last and Gemini 4 Carbon expected next.

Google DeepMind unveiled Genie 4, a real-time photorealistic world model steered by natural language, and pairs it with Gemini 4 Argon and Gemini Robotics to simulate Apptronik's Apollo humanoid playing checkers.

Google DeepMind's Genie 4 world model debuts in a demo where Gemini 4 Argon breaks a checkers task into real-time steps for an Apptronik Apollo humanoid with Sharpa hands.

A user asks whether the €5.50/month student Google AI Pro plan with Gemini 4 Argon, paired with Codex, is worth it for AI agent coding.

Given the last 3% of usage quota, Gemini 4 Argon produced four GPU raymarched worlds and a procedural audio synthesizer in one HTML file, plus a midnight note.

Gemini 4 Flash is reportedly reaching ~300 tokens/sec on LMArena, which the author says would be a major edge if it delivers Argon-level intelligence at Flash pricing.

A Superteam USA event with Google DeepMind is 75% full and promises demos of Gemini 4 Argon and Gemini Audio among latest capabilities.

A Turkish thread details Genie 4's new capabilities—synchronized audio generation, real-time character dialogue, better human motion and physics—plus a Gemini 4 Argon-driven Apollo robot checkers simulation.