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Google Launches Gemini 4 Argon for Subscribers

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In Short: Google announced the global rollout of Gemini 4 Argon, its latest AI model, to developers and enterprises via the API in AI Studio and Gemini platform, and to Google AI Ultra and Pro subscribers in the Gemini app and AI Mode in Search.

SVP and Chief AI Architect at Google DeepMind, Tulsee Doshi, highlighted Argon's capabilities in complex, real-world tasks, including coding, finance, legal work, cybersecurity, and science.

Argon has demonstrated superior performance on benchmarks across critical economic sectors, ranking #1 on the Vals Index.

The model has been used to procedurally sculpt, rig, animate, and PBR-bake a complex 3D game, and to build a highly detailed model of a Pagoda using multi-agent visual critique loops.

Argon also helped teams increase agentic code submissions by more than 35% while reducing code rollbacks by nearly a third.

Google is offering Argon at an introductory price of $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, with cached input tokens at 95% off.

Developers will get 50 percent discounted API rates through November.

Google has started rolling out Gemini 4 Argon to the Gemini app for paid subscribers, with the feature rolling out gradually to eligible Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers in the US.

Google is shrinking free Gemini down to its smallest model and plans to expand access first to paid API customers and Google AI Ultra subscribers.

Google AI Plus subscribers will lose the ability to select Pro models in the Gemini app and AI Mode in Search from November 13, 2026.

What's confirmed

• Argon in Antigravity wrote Python scripts to procedurally sculpt, rig, animate, and PBR-bake a complex 3D game using multi-agent visual critique loops then wired it for the web in Three.js with GLSL shaders, shatter physics, and a single-player AI.
• Argon in Antigravity has helped teams increase agentic code submissions by more than 35% while reducing code rollbacks by nearly a third.
• With zero external libraries and 100% pure Python, Argon wrote its own 3D ray-tracing engine with a custom video tool and audio mixer to build and document a sunlit library from scratch, producing, narrating, and assembling this video with Gemini 3.8 TTS voiceover and music by Lyria 3.5.
• Its depth and precision across multi-step tasks leads Argon to outperform other frontier models on benchmarks across domains, ranking #1 on the Vals Index, which measures model performance across critical economic sectors like finance, coding, legal, and tax work.
• SVP, Google DeepMind and Chief AI Architect, Google Gemini 4 Argon is now globally available today for developers and enterprises via the API in AI Studio and Gemini platform, for Google AI Ultra subscribers in Google Antigravity, and Google AI Ultra and Pro subscribers in the Gemini app and AI Mode in Search.
• Teams at Google, across enterprises, and in the research community have already been using Argon to land significant impact across fields: At Google, we’ve been using Argon on our hardest engineering problems.
• Argon excels at deep work in complex, real-world tasks across domains including coding, finance, legal, cybersecurity, and science.
• The desk objects, room and race track were modeled and collision-checked using Blender MCP, textured with Nano Banana, and wired with physics, custom shaders, and car engine audio from Gemini Omni Flash in Three.js.
• Gemini 4 Argon: Built to solve your hardest problems We’re giving developers, enterprises, scientists, and consumers access to our latest frontier model.
• Argon turned pictures of a real desk into a playable miniature racing game using a multi-agent loop in Antigravity.
• Argon built a highly detailed model of a Pagoda using multi-agent visual critique loops in Antigravity.
• Google has started rolling out Gemini 4 Argon, its latest AI model, in the Gemini app for paid subscribers.

What's still developing

• Get the latest Android News in your inbox every day arrow_right Sign up to receive the latest Android News every weekday: Android Headlines / Tech News / Artificial Intelligence News / Google Rolls Out Gemini 4 Argon Worldwide on the App and Developer APIs Today Google has launched Gemini 4 Argon globally for AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers, featuring an industry-leading 1 million output token limit and top scores on professional benchmarks.
• The company announced on Tuesday that its new Gemini 4 model, dubbed "Argon," is rolling out to the public and will be available to Gemini app users and developers. Google is positioning Argon as its new workhorse model, stating that it excels at coding, cybersecurity, and knowledge work in finance and law. Tulsee Doshi, Gemini product lead at Google DeepMind, called Argon a "powerhouse" model and said it would be the first of a family of new Gemini models rolling out over time.
• START FREE TRIAL (MONTHLY) START FREE TRIAL (ANNUAL) Earlier this month, Google pulled back the curtain on its newest primary AI model, Gemini 4 Argon, highlighting how it is actively being deployed to refactor Chromium and supercharge complex agentic workflows.
• Gemini 4 Argon is moving beyond its initial limited release.
• Robby Stein, VP of Product for Google Search, announced the rollout on X, saying Argon “is now rolling out globally in Search” and that subscribers can switch to it using the “+” icon.
• These configurations resemble existing options for Gemini Flash models, although the exact relationship between context size and reasoning effort remains unclear. 👀Gemini Argon spotted in Antigravity 2.0 Insiders! pic.twitter.com/FsR5Mz08LO Meanwhile, Gemini Web now supports low, medium, and high thinking effort settings across available models.
• Google is rolling out Gemini 4 Argon globally, making its new flagship AI model available to developers, businesses, and consumers starting today.
• Google DeepMind announced Gemini 4 Argon on September 30, a new frontier AI model built for long, multi-step tasks in software engineering, defensive cybersecurity, and enterprise knowledge work.
• Google has launched Gemini 4 Argon in Canada and worldwide, making its latest AI model available to paying subscribers, developers and businesses after a limited rollout to cybersecurity partners last month.
• The company introduced Gemini 4 Argon on Wednesday as the flagship of its Gemini 4 generation and is releasing it first to a vetted group of cyber defenders, who will be able to use it without cyber guardrails.
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• You Can Now Use Gemini Spark to Manage Your Google Photos Google has announced that Gemini Spark now works with Google Photos, allowing Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers to manage, edit, and share photos through prompts.

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