Why “argon” is being discussed
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they named it argon because after using it your token ar gon
by AravPhi · Oct 1, 2026
Interesting. Chart is on this page: https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/omniscience "AA-Omniscience Hallucination Rate (lower is better) measures how o…
by mewse-hn · Oct 1, 2026
> Argon agents are working on migrating C/C++ codebases to Rust across Google — scaling from tens of thousands of lines in core libraries like re2, libgav1 up to 800K+ line…
by filearts · Oct 1, 2026
I checked price per AA task and yeah Argon vs Opus 5.5 High are practically neck and neck both on "intelligence" and cost per task. So if you aren't pushing higher on Opus (whic…
by jug · Oct 1, 2026
Rounding down was my reading comprehension mistake. I should have read better. Also, I have had extensive experience with all Gemini models except the recent few. Generally, the…
by GodelNumbering · Oct 1, 2026
> A team of Argon agents analyzed fleet-wide profiling telemetry to autonomously identify and apply memory optimizations across Google’s data centers Slightly concerning that th…
by _leom · Oct 1, 2026
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