Gemini 4 Argon lands day-0 on Databricks, tops internal coding and agentic benchmarks
matei_zaharia · x · 2026-10-14
- Databricks announced Gemini 4 Argon is available day-0 via Foundation Model APIs and Unity Gateway, which handles governance, monitoring, and security for every call.
- Databricks says it's the strongest Gemini model they've tested, with the best results on internal coding tasks and OfficeQA Pro V2, their flagship enterprise agentic benchmark.
- Other October updates: workspace-level package repos for Databricks Apps GA, on-demand state repartitioning for streaming GA, Unity Gateway Skills REST API in Beta (CLI/Python/Go/Java/JS SDKs), and governed tag propagation in Unity Catalog now in Beta.
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