Google releases Gemini 4 Argon (30 Sep): #1 on AutomationBench at 51.3%, $2/$10 per M tokens introductory
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Google releases Gemini 4 Argon (30 Sep): #1 on AutomationBench at 51.3%, $2/$10 per M tokens introductory
Google DeepMind's Gemini 4 Argon scores 77.9% on DeepSWE v1.1 and leads the Vals Index across finance, legal and tax work; output limit rises to 1M tokens from 64K. Introductory price $2/$10 per million tokens, then $4/$20; first to cyber defenders, then paid API users.
Why it matters. Google's newest AI model leads a benchmark of automating office work and launches at the same low price as its rivals' latest models, a third major release in a week.
Next. Independent tests of the model's ability to do long, paid tasks are due in the coming weeks.
Mistral Large 4 (6 Oct): 59.9% on AutomationBench at $1.36/$4.18 per M tokens, open weights by month-end
Mistral released a 1-trillion-parameter model (49bn active) in preview, reporting 59.9% on AutomationBench against Gemini 4 Argon's 51.3% a week earlier, at about two-thirds of Argon's introductory price; weights are due by the end of October. Scores are the vendor's own.
Why it matters. A European lab says its new model, which anyone will be able to download, beats last week's leader at automating office workflows for less money.
Next. The model's weights are due to be published by the end of October.