Gemini 4 Argon goes global at $2/$10 introductory pricing; Chollet says Google is 'back at the frontier'

Argon is Google's flagship model for long-horizon coding, finance, law, cybersecurity and science work. Introductory API pricing is $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output, and it doubles after November 30. Consumer access is limited to paid AI Pro ($20 per month) and Ultra plans in the Gemini app and Antigravity.

DeepMind's capability audit, which tracked 123 models across 92 benchmarks, found steady gains of about 0.1 GCI points per month and no sign of recursive self-improvement.

François Chollet said Argon has a similar profile to Astra on ARC-AGI-3 and declared Google 'back at the frontier.' Demis Hassabis amplified Antigravity's note that demand has been 'incredible.'

The backlash is about the paywall, which comes after Google already cut Flash from the free tier. On r/singularity, quotes from Argon's chain of thought drew 388 upvotes. Watch whether the post-November price holds.