Google's busy fall: Gemini 4 Argon launches, plus OpenAI models on Google Cloud
samcharrington · x · 2026-11-12
Sam Charrington's TWIML breakdown of Google's comeback after weeks of narratives claiming it was falling behind OpenAI and Anthropic.
- Sep 30: launched long-awaited frontier model Gemini 4, codenamed Argon
- Oct 8: Gemini Agent unveiled at Gemini at Work 2026
- Oct 13: Gemini 4 Argon available on Google Cloud
- Oct 20: open-sourced TorchTPU (native PyTorch on TPUs), released llm-d 1.0 open distributed inference, and introduced Gemini for Government Services
- Oct 21: Google Cloud added OpenAI models; Google says it's the only hyperscaler offering Gemini, Claude, and GPT models side by side
Charrington frames the flurry as a lesson in recency bias: in an industry where narratives flip overnight, the three frontier labs keep leapfrogging one another.
Related event: Google Fires Back With Dozens of Gemini and Cloud AI Updates(3 posts)→
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