Been testing Gemini 4 Argon for the past week Its a good model, but not Opus5.5/Astra/Fable levels. Great at coding and replicating UI. It took a lot to push it into production ready code though, much of the output was cool demo, but didn't think about auth, accounts, etc.. For 3D, its not as strong. This is Astra vs Argon in 3D modeling my office. Same instructions + set of tools for recursive vision input For the price, I think its a great deal and happy to see Google have a decent model out now.

I belive after the next generation of Claude/OpenAI models the frontier is gonna shift to inference speed. Any increase in intelligence is marginal at this point as 90% of the tasks are one-shotted or require few iterations. The biggest bottleneck now is speed, opus5.5 can do great work but it takes multiple days for complex tasks increasing the cost of misalignement on the initial promps. Improving alignment is great and all but if delivery time would be 5x faster the better iteration speed would be even more valuable

ICLR 2027 submission: we benchmarked all frontier models and our model performs... Anthropic & OpenAI today: no you don't. ICLR deadline is 9/25, so i guess no excuse not including opus5.5 and gpt6-luna & sol in the paper.