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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, according to The Decoder. The same model drops to 49.8 percent under the standard test harness, and Argon also trails rivals in math and software engineering benchmarks.

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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.

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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