By Mitchell Duran
Publication Date: 2026-10-13 20:34:00
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Google hasn’t been the big tech company the AI sector looks to for frontier models in a while. Gemini 4 Argon might change that.
On Tuesday, Google made Argon broadly available to compete with Anthropic, OpenAI, and Meta, whose new Muse Wonder (max) just scored 52 on Artificial Analysis’ Intelligence Index. Gemini 4 Argon (high) ranks #4 with a 53, tied with OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra. On Artificial Analysis’ Cost per Intelligence Index Task, Argon sits at #10 at $1.99 a task, on launch pricing that doubles December 1. That’s cheaper than Muse Wonder, Astra, Sonnet, Opus, and Fable, all at roughly the same level of intelligence. Claude Opus 5.5, for example, scores a 58 and costs about 3x as much per task.
Wall Street shrugged. The…



