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The Decoder· Matthias Bastian·· 2026-10-16

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

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

AI summary

Google Deepmind's Gemini 4 Argon scored 97.5 percent on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark, making Google the second lab after OpenAI to cross the 95 percent mark. But the results swing wildly depending on the test setup: in the standard harness, the score drops to just 49.8 percent. Argon also trails rivals in math and software engineering.

Selection record

Not admittedSum of both 142 < twice the threshold 152

Source tier
Media and individuals; this tier's threshold is 76
Pre-filter
passed:评测Gemini 4 Argon模型AI能力

A model scores each item twice, independently, against one written standard, out of 100. An item is admitted only when the two scores add up to twice the threshold. The threshold is set per source tier.

Source: The Decoder · the-decoder.com