Google's New Model at 40% of the Competition's Price
Published: October 15, 2026
Duration: 5:51
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.