Key Info

Gemini 4 Argon ranks #1 on the Val Index for completing agentic tasks at half the cost of Opus 5.5. Google reported that the Chrome team used Argon to refactor roughly 6 million lines of legacy features out of a 40-million-line codebase, eliminating an entire category of browser crashes.

Highlights

  • Gemini 4 Argon is #1 on the Val Index for agentic tasks
  • Runs at half the cost of Opus 5.5
  • Chrome team used it to refactor ~6M lines out of a 40M-line codebase
  • The refactor eliminated an entire category of browser crashes
  • Available in Cline via npm i -g cline or the new desktop app