Model releasesOctober 13, 2026Impact
Google launches Gemini 4 Argon with a 2M-token context
Gemini 4 Argon arrived with a 2-million-token context window, native video understanding and top scores on several multimodal benchmarks.
Why it matters
Argon takes the lead in our multimodal and long-context races, giving Google its strongest position in the overall standings this year and narrowing the gap with Claude Opus 5.5 to a few points.
The details
- Argon leads our multimodal, video understanding and document races by dominant margins, edges the science race and enters the overall top five.
- It is available in the Gemini app, Vertex AI and the Gemini API, with Deep Research upgraded to use it.
- On agentic coding it trails Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra, consistent with Google's emphasis on multimodality and research.
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