Google launches Gemini 4 Argon with $2 per 1M token pricing

Google's rollout of Gemini 4 Argon is accompanied by concrete examples from its own teams and partners. In one, the Chrome team used Argon on roughly 40 million lines of Chromium code to separate browser features from core web-page processing, coordinating changes across hundreds of files and completing a job that normally takes months in a few weeks. Google says this work lets users move between tabs and side panels without reloading a page and helps eliminate crash causes.

Beyond software, Google points to scientific and security applications. A quantum chemistry package called xTB saw molecular structure prediction sped up by up to 2.3×. An in-house version of AlphaQubit, a machine learning model for correcting quantum computing errors, was optimized to run in a single hardware kernel, roughly doubling inference throughput. For security firm Wiz, Argon helped find and fix a vulnerability in healthcare infrastructure that could have exposed hundreds of thousands of patient records. In robotics, a video-to-simulation-to-real method had a humanoid robot "Apollo" succeed seven times in a row at a beanbag toss task.