Gemini 4 may disappoint, but Google finally shipped a fresh pretrain
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-10-01
Commenting on skepticism that Gemini 4 Argon will beat Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra, teortaxesTex argues the benchmarks may be oversold, but what matters is Google finally released a completely new pretrain, letting it iterate with 4.1/4.2 releases and catch up like Meta did — though Google's other curses likely remain.
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