Google makes Gemini 4 Argon available to developers

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

Why it matters

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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Officialdevelopers.googleblog.comhttps://developers.googleblog.com/gemini-4-argon-for-robotics

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