Gemini 4 Argon goes GA with intelligence index matching GPT-6 Astra

Gemini 4 Argon is now GA. Argon ranks equal to GPT-6 Astra on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index at 60% of the Cost per Task with discounted prices until Nov 30 Key takeaways: - Google is back to having a frontier model released to the public: This is Google's first proprietary model above the Flash class in over 7 months - Pricing temporarily discounted to 50% until November 30: Gemini 4 Argon has a Cost per Task of $1.99 with discounted prices, a ~40% reduction compared to GPT-6 Astra (max) for a comparable level of Intelligence. It is currently priced at $2/$10 per 1M input/output tokens with a 95% discount for cache reads (up from 90% from previous Gemini models). Prices will increase to $4/$20 after November 30 - Large improvements in agentic performance: Gemini 4 Argon shows substantial improvements in agentic evaluations such as AA-Briefcase, AutomationBench-AA, Terminal Bench 4. This is an area in which Google's models have historically underperformed compared to leading peers Lowest hallucination rate among leading models: On AA-Omniscience, Gemini 4 Argon has a 15% hallucination rate, the lowest of any model scoring 45+ on the Intelligence Index