Gemini

Gemini 4 Argon debuts 31st of 145 on EQ-Bench Creative Writing v3

In its first result on EQ-Bench Creative Writing v3, Gemini 4 Argon scored 1758 Elo, 31st of 145.

Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.6 Flash prices double on January 1, 2027

Paid-tier input for both models costs $0.75 and output $3.75 per 1M tokens through December 31, 2026, rising to $1.50 and $7.50 starting January 1, 2027.

Takes effect Jan 1, 2027 · in 61 days

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Vals Index: Sonnet 5.5 edges Opus 5.5 and Gemini 4 Argon

Vals AI's GDP-weighted index of finance, coding, legal and tax tasks ranks Claude Sonnet 5.5 first at 70.85%, Opus 5.5 at 70.18%, Gemini 4 Argon 69.24%, GPT-6 Astra 65.02% and GPT-6.1 Sol 63.94% as of October 21, 2026.

Arena text leaderboard: Gemini 4 Argon first, Opus 5.5 second, GPT-6 Astra 73rd

Arena's October 20, 2026 text leaderboard ranks Gemini 4 Argon (High) first at 1532 (4,900 votes), Claude Opus 5.5 (High) second at 1516, Claude Opus 5 (Max) fourth at 1509, Claude Sonnet 5.5 (xHigh) 28th at 1473, GPT-6.1 Sol (Max) 66th at 1443 and GPT-6 Astra (Max) 73rd at 1441.

Arena WebDev leaderboard: Opus 5.5 first, GPT-6 Astra second

Arena's October 19, 2026 WebDev leaderboard ranks Claude Opus 5.5 (Max) first at 1807 (2,925 votes), GPT-6 Astra (Max) second at 1774, Claude Sonnet 5.5 (xHigh) third at 1768, GPT-6.1 Sol (Max) fourth at 1753, Claude Opus 5 (Max) eighth at 1689 and Gemini 4 Argon (High) tenth at 1678.

Copilot removes Gemini 3.7 Flash, Grok 4.5 and older GPT models

On October 19, 2026 Copilot deprecated Gemini 3.7 Flash (use Gemini 3.8 Flash), Grok 4.5 (use Grok 4.7), and GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4, GPT-5.4 mini and GPT-5 mini.

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Vals AI Terminal-Bench 4.0 with one harness: Opus 5.5 65.2%, Astra 59.6%, Argon 57.6%

OpenClaw adds Gemini 4 Argon and makes it the Google setup default