AnalysisOpinion / analysisApplications · Evaluation & Benchmarks · Hardware & Compute1 source · Oct 16, 2026

Google's Gemini 4 Argon is closer to the AI frontier than any Google model in months

Google Deepmind's Gemini 4 Argon scored 97.5 percent on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark, making Google the second lab after OpenAI to cross the 95 percent mark.

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  • But the results swing wildly depending on the test setup: in the standard harness, the score drops to just 49.8 percent.
  • Argon also trails rivals in math and software engineering.
  • The article Google's Gemini 4 Argon is closer to the AI frontier than any Google model in months appeared first on The Decoder.

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