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

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

The Decoder · Oct 16, 2026, 3:03 PM UTC

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. Argon also trails rivals in math and software engineering.…

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