Gemini 4 Argon beats Pokémon using less than half the tokens Gemini 3.8 Flash spent on 3 badges

waylaidwanderer · reddit · 2026-10-14

A demo by TheCodeOfJoel shows Gemini 4 Argon becoming Pokémon Champion while consuming less than half the tokens Gemini 3.8 Flash spent to earn just 3 badges. The comparison highlights a major efficiency jump for the new model on long-horizon agentic game tasks — better performance at a fraction of the inference cost.

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