Hands-on with Google's Argon: not frontier at coding but a solid, well-designed model
zacharynado · x · 2026-10-14
Investor Rohit Krishnan shares early impressions of Google's Argon: not quite frontier at coding but very competent, free of old Gemini's self-flagellation quirks, quite good at design, and a bit quirky to talk to (loves long lists). He calls it a solid release and awaits benchmark numbers. zacharynado endorses the take.
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