Gemini 4 Argon begins rolling out in Gemini app and Antigravity, but only if you pay

Google revealed Gemini 4 Argon a few weeks ago, saying that it needed to move cautiously toward a full release because of the potential for nefarious use. Google seems to have worked all that out pretty quickly, though. Argon is beginning its wide rollout today, but it’s only coming to paying users at this time, and even those on lower-tier plans won’t have full access.

谷歌几周前发布了 Gemini 4 Argon，并表示由于存在被恶意使用的潜在风险，需要谨慎推进全面发布。不过，谷歌似乎很快就解决了这些问题。Argon 从今天开始广泛推送，但目前仅面向付费用户，即便是低级订阅计划的用户也无法获得完全访问权限。

Nothing about Gemini 4 Argon’s capabilities has changed. Google still points to the benchmarks it published late last month as evidence of the model’s advanced reasoning and agentic coding capabilities. The model is supposedly trained to refuse malicious instructions, and an automated misalignment monitor can stop processing if it detects an unintended workflow. Google claims Argon needs that because it’s so capable.

Gemini 4 Argon 的功能没有任何变化。谷歌仍以其上个月底发布的基准测试结果作为证据，证明该模型具备先进的推理能力和代理编码能力。据称，该模型经过训练可以拒绝恶意指令，且自动化的失准监控器可以在检测到非预期工作流时停止处理。谷歌声称 Argon 之所以需要这些功能，是因为它能力太强。

The company has a few new examples of how Argon has helped inside Google, where it has been used by thousands of Googlers. Argon has reportedly been instrumental in making YouTube’s comment system more efficient. Argon identified redundant emoji rendering that, when eliminated, dropped server load by 45 percent. Engineers also turned Gemini 4 loose on the proprietary drone physics simulator used in Project Wing, and the AI found critical bugs that had been in the codebase since 2018.

该公司提供了一些关于 Argon 如何在谷歌内部提供帮助的新案例，目前已有数千名谷歌员工在使用它。据报道，Argon 在提高 YouTube 评论系统的效率方面发挥了重要作用。Argon 识别出了冗余的表情符号渲染，在消除这些冗余后，服务器负载降低了 45%。工程师们还让 Gemini 4 运行了 Project Wing 使用的专有无人机物理模拟器，该人工智能发现了自 2018 年以来一直存在于代码库中的关键漏洞。

Google also notes that Argon has advanced its robotics program, showing a measurable step increase in embodied reasoning. Argon is apparently better at solving spatial problems in 3D environments.

谷歌还指出，Argon 推动了其机器人项目的发展，在具身推理方面表现出可衡量的进步。显然，Argon 在解决 3D 环境中的空间问题方面表现更佳。

For your general AI queries, Gemini 4 Argon will be rolling out today in the Gemini app. However, it’s only going to be available for those on AI Pro ($20/mo) and AI Ultra (starting at $99/mo) plans. This isn’t a shock, as Google also recently restricted access to the Flash models for free users, leaving them with just Flash-Lite. That’s not all—there are additional restrictions on Argon for coding-focused products. In Antigravity and AI Studio, the new model will only be available for those on AI Ultra plans.

对于一般的 AI 查询，Gemini 4 Argon 将于今天在 Gemini 应用中推出。然而，它仅适用于 AI Pro（每月 20 美元）和 AI Ultra（每月 99 美元起）计划的用户。这并不令人意外，因为谷歌最近也限制了免费用户对 Flash 模型的访问，只为他们保留了 Flash-Lite。不仅如此，Argon 在专注于编码的产品上还有额外的限制。在 Antigravity 和 AI Studio 中，该新模型仅供 AI Ultra 计划的用户使用。

Code generation has become even more important in the frontier of AI development since Google’s last Pro model release, but it can eat up a lot of compute cycles. You can generate code with Argon in the Gemini app’s Canvas mode even if you’re a Pro subscriber, but the multi-threaded agentic workflows in Antigravity are probably too expensive. If you need something more capable than Flash models, Google says it’s keeping Gemini 3.1 Pro around for the time being.

自谷歌发布上一个 Pro 模型以来，代码生成在 AI 开发前沿变得愈发重要，但它会消耗大量的计算周期。即使你是 Pro 订阅用户，也可以在 Gemini 应用的 Canvas 模式下使用 Argon 生成代码，但 Antigravity 中的多线程代理工作流可能成本过高。如果你需要比 Flash 模型更强大的功能，谷歌表示目前会保留 Gemini 3.1 Pro。

Google has declined to clarify when (or if) Argon will come to Antigravity for other subscription tiers. For developers accessing Google’s models via the paid API, the company will happily sell you some Argon tokens. Pricing is temporarily set at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, with a 95 percent discount for cached tokens. This deal is only good through November 30, when the rate will jump to $4 per 1M input tokens and $20 per 1M output tokens. Devs will have to factor that in before building workflows around Google’s new model.

谷歌拒绝明确 Argon 何时（或是否）会向其他订阅层级开放 Antigravity 的访问权限。对于通过付费 API 访问谷歌模型的开发者，该公司很乐意向你出售 Argon 代币。定价暂时定为每百万输入代币 2 美元，每百万输出代币 10 美元，缓存代币可享受 95% 的折扣。此优惠仅持续到 11 月 30 日，届时费率将跃升至每百万输入代币 4 美元，每百万输出代币 20 美元。开发者在围绕谷歌的新模型构建工作流之前，必须将此因素考虑在内。