Google makes Gemini 4 Argon available to developers

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Google made Gemini 4 Argon available to developers — on the paid tier of the Gemini API and in Google AI Studio and Antigravity (for AI Ultra subscribers), and the same day showed how to use Argon across robot development

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Company-reported 87% on the embodied reasoning benchmark ERQA. Google said that from a single photo of a real tabletop Argon built a MuJoCo simulation twin on its own and collected more than 4,500 episodes, raising real-robot success from 56% to 75% and cutting completion time from 35 seconds to 24 seconds. A general model taking on robot data labeling, value functions and simulation building

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