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

Google Deepmind is the second major AI lab to pass 95 percent on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark. But the results depend heavily on the testing method, and Argon trails rivals in math and software engineering, according to Epoch AI. Google Deepmind's new frontier model, Gemini 4 Argon, scored 97.5 percent on ARC-AGI-3 at a cost of $4,800 using the "Provider Adapter Harness," a test setup that uses vendor-specific features like retained reasoning and context compaction.

According to ARC Prize, Google is now the second AI lab after OpenAI to cross the 95 percent mark on what is widely considered the toughest benchmark for general problem-solving. Only GPT-6 Astra scores higher at 99.9 percent. Like Astra, Argon needed 62 percent fewer actions than the human baseline across the 25 public games. It matched or beat the speedrun record in three games and came within 10 percent of the best time in six…