Gemini 4 Argon launches: #1 on Vals Index at $2/$10 pricing
Google released Gemini 4 Argon, claiming #1 on the Vals Index, internal use for refactoring 6 million lines of Chrome code and nearly 3x faster Gemma, priced at $2/$10 against Sonnet 5.5.
GOOGLE JUST DROPPED GEMINI 4 its called gemini 4 argon, and google says its #1 on the vals index, a benchmark built on real work in finance, coding, law and tax what google says it already did inside google: -> helped the chrome team untangle a 6 million line chunk of old code. months of work done in weeks -> made their open gemma model almost 3x faster in a few days. normally that takes months -> their engineers using it shipped 35% more code with almost a third fewer rollbacks the price: $2 per million input tokens, $10 output. exactly what anthropic charges for sonnet 5.5 who gets it today: developers on the paid API, plus pro and ultra subscribers in the gemini app and AI mode in google search the crazy part: openai shipped gpt-6, anthropic shipped haiku 5.5, now google answers with argon. 3 labs in one week to be fair these are google's own numbers, and free users dont get it yet personally the price is the real headline. a frontier model at sonnet prices means the "best model" race just turned into a price war
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