Google's New Model at 40% of the Competition's Price
Gemini 4 Argon shipped broadly Tuesday — leads DeepSWE at 77.9%, one-million-token context, and comes in at $2/$10 per million through November before doubling to match Claude Opus pricing. It leads on finance and legal tasks but trails on coding and the broader intelligence index. Also: an OpenAI engineer was arrested for hiding a recording device in a conference room, and Anthropic's Scion explains what AI-generated code does to engineering infrastructure at scale.
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