alt Hacker NewsI'm using this model via API. I am most excited about its ability to write the english language (or any language). My least favorite trend on twitter has been people posting 2D illustrations/3D renders as a proxy for model capability. Well-written prose is far less likely to go viral but far outstrips the importance rendering a fantasy world in one shot.
I've been trying it out via the API and the model has been a delight so far. Clear in the head, not RL-fried, distinct writing style, and big model smell. That said, the em-dash is back w/ this model.
That said, I would be so frustrated with Sundar Pichai if I was on the Google team. The botched rollout of this model seems to be entirely a matter of capacity, and Pichai has been more than happy to give it to anybody but his own team.
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Em dashes are underappreciated — they are visually pleasing, not cluttery like semicolons or definitive like colons.
I added Gemini 4 Argon to our video creation benchmarks.
The results are a bit disappointing given Googles scale and training data.
The results are on par with cheaper Chinese open source models to be frank. https://cliphou.se/benchmark/
I was kinda hoping I'd get to the end and it would say, "In fact, this entire post was drafted by Argon!"
Unpopular opinion: em-dash is fine
> That said, the em-dash is back w/ this model.
noooooooo
> far outstrips the importance rendering a fantasy world in one shot.
Given FelonyBench, do we also have a FantasyBench?
I've been using it for a while internally at Google. I prefer Argon over Opus 5.5 because of the clear thinking and directness. It phrases things in an organized, straightforward way.