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Google launches Gemini 4 Argon at $2 per million
The Hindu BusinessLine··3d ago
Google launched Gemini 4 Argon for developers and eligible subscribers, targeting coding, finance, legal, cybersecurity and research tasks. Pricing is $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, with a 95 percent cached-input discount. Google said Argon ranked first on the Vals Index. Sundar Pichai said it has a stronger grasp of coding and multi-step tool use.
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What It Means For You
- Eligible users can access Argon through the Gemini API, AI Studio and Google Antigravity.
- Google AI Ultra and Pro subscribers can use it in the Gemini app and AI Mode in Search.
- Google plans 10,000 scientists six months of free access to the highest Antigravity usage tier, subject to eligibility.
What's Happening
- Google said prompt-injection attacks had a 0.7 percent success rate on a benchmark with 15 adaptive attempts.
- Pichai said Argon ran 1,000 iterative rounds to refine an exploded-view animation from a Pixel CAD file.
- The company positioned Argon as the start of a wider Gemini 4 model family.
What Google Claims On Benchmarks
- Google said Argon ranked first on the Vals Index for finance, coding, legal and tax work.
- It reported help identifying enzyme designs that later showed catalytic activity in lab tests.
- Cybersecurity teams used the model to identify and fix vulnerabilities in government and healthcare systems, Google said.
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