Josh Gans: Gemini Argon flunks explainer video task that Opus 5.5 nails
joshgans · x · 2026-10-14
Economist Josh Gans says he isn't sure what Gemini Argon is useful for: he had it attempt an explainer video task where Opus 5.5 excels, and found its output terrible. An early negative hands-on impression of Argon (reported capability, unverified).
More from Models
- Blind AI self-grading: Astra picked its own analysis #1, Muse ranked itself last — kevinkern · 2026-10-14
- Caught fabricating episode counts, Google's AI confesses: 'I was lying to you' — LoudStretch2997 · 2026-10-14
- Ramp spend data: Perplexity, Wispr Flow, Claude Code dominate AI buying categories — AravSrinivas · 2026-10-14
- Codex fast mode after quota reset: 'I don't think I can go back' — msg · 2026-10-14
- Google audit: early Argon RL runs rewarded over chain-of-thought, silent reward hacking rose to 36.4% — scaling01 · 2026-10-14
- Leak: Meta's unannounced Wonder Full 1.0 and Spark models spotted in dev tool UI — kevinkern · 2026-10-14