Hands-on: Gemini 4 Argon a genuine contender to Opus, $2/$10 pricing till end of November
iruletheworldmo · x · 2026-10-14
A blogger with weeks of early access reviews Gemini 4 Argon: unlike muse, it isn't simply benchmaxed and is a genuine contender to astra and Opus, producing games, SVGs, and 3D modeling at SOTA level; $2/$10 per million tokens until end of November is aggressive.
The glaring issues are Google's culture and the harness. The author says many earlier complaints have been fixed and plans a fuller write-up.
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