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.
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- [1]Google's Gemini 4 Argon is closer to the AI frontier than any Google model in monthsThe Decoder · Oct 16, 03:03 PM
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.
But the results swing wildly depending on the test setup: in the standard harness, the score drops to just 49.8 percent.
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