Gemini 4 Argon in 30 seconds: 1M-token output, pricing and a disputed benchmark
A roundup of Argon's 1M-token output, $2/$10 launch pricing, Fairwind early access, the disputed 77.9% DeepSWE score and a claimed 2.7x speedup from a 32,000-line Rust rewrite.
🚨GEMINI 4 ARGON: EVERYTHING YOU HAVE TO KNOW IN 30 SECONDS - it can write up to 1M tokens in one answer, up from 64K. that's a whole code migration in one run, but a bigger limit doesn't prove the quality holds to the end - launch price is $2 in and $10 out per million tokens, later $4 and $20. google hasn't said when the discount ends - cyber defenders get it first through google's fairwind program, then paid API customers and AI Ultra. nothing confirmed for regular pro plans - google claims 77.9% on DeepSWE, a coding test. Epoch AI found broken checks in at least 23 of 113 tasks, mostly marking work as failed when it wasn't, so read the score as rough - google says argon agents reworked 32,000 lines of a rust video decoder and made it 2.7x faster than the old rust version. nobody has reproduced it yet - google's new gemini work agent can pick claude for a task when it fits better. that's the platform, not argon itself - google already handles 22 billion API tokens a minute, up from 16 billion a quarter earlier, and says it's short on compute the hype: - google announced argon on september 30 and most paying users still don't have it, but the "it's delayed" posts are about a release date google never gave - the october 9 date came from a reddit user's guess, and the "argon is live on pro" screenshots are unconfirmed the gossip: - bloomberg reports some google employees think argon's real coding falls short of its benchmarks. google disputes it, and other staff call it competitive my take: this looks like a strong model stuck behind google's own compute limits, so it goes first to whoever protects networks or pays the most. pichai's order says a lot, "as safely as possible" comes before "as soon as possible" don't pause your work waiting for it. the score that matters is how it handles your real tasks the week you can actually open it