Google Unveils Gemini 4 Argon, Its Latest Frontier Model

Google has unveiled Gemini 4 Argon, its latest frontier model that aims to return the company to the forefront of artificial intelligence. The model topped both GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 on 13 out of 19 benchmarks in Google's testing, with a score of 53 on AA's Intelligence Index.

Argon debuted at No. 1 on Arena's text leaderboard and achieved a leading 77.9% on DeepSWE (real-world coding). It also excelled in knowledge work, long documents, and reading charts and video tests.

However, Google has not yet set a date for the wider rollout of Argon, with API pricing starting at $2/$10 per million tokens in/out, rising to $4/$20 once the promo window closes. Bloomberg reported internal doubts about Argon's coding abilities, but Google rejected these claims.

Despite this, Argon's numbers put Google back in contention for a comeback story. However, it remains to be seen how the model will perform in a broader rollout before declaring its success.