Leak: 'Gemini 4 Argon' tested for weeks, real Opus rival at $2/$10 per M tokens
vedantmisra · x · 2026-10-14
A widely circulated (unverified) claim that Google has quietly shipped "Gemini 4 Argon," which the poster has used for weeks. Verdict: unlike the benchmaxed Muse, it's a genuine contender to astra and Opus — matching SOTA on games, SVGs and 3D modeling — at a mad $2/$10 per million tokens through end of November. The weak spot is Google's harness: its Spark rival can't handle sign-ins, has a clunky cloud computer, locks everything outside 40 partner apps, and doesn't disclose which model is actually running. A reblogger adds Google is already fixing much of this by migrating Spark into the main chat experience as tasks.
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