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Google's Argon AI Opens to All Developers at $2 Per Million Tokens

Google Opens Argon AI to Global Developers

Google announced on Tuesday that its flagship AI model, Argon, is now available to developers and enterprise customers worldwide. Previously, it was only offered to a select group of trusted cybersecurity professionals through Google's Fairwind program. This phased rollout balances security assessments with commercial promotion, reflecting the importance of risk control when expanding access to cutting-edge models.

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Pricing and Availability

Currently, Argon is available to paying users through the Google AI Studio API, Google AI Ultra and Pro subscription services in the Gemini App, and the intelligent agent development platform Antigravity. Its pricing is $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, with prices doubling starting in December.

Even after the price increase, it remains cheaper than the OpenAI GPT-6Astra mentioned in the text, which costs $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens. However, according to reports, some Google employees still have doubts about Argon's performance in areas such as coding.

Performance and Real-World Applications

Koray Kavukcuoglu, head of Google DeepMind, said that internal software engineers have used Argon to deliver high-quality code more quickly, and the model has also been used to optimize the user experience of Chrome. Google hopes to demonstrate the value of the model in real engineering tasks. Kavukcuoglu also said that Argon, combining multimodal reasoning, agent coding, and physical understanding capabilities, has the potential to advance embodied robotics research.

In one demonstration, researchers reconstructed the scene layout and motion trajectory from videos of humans throwing sandbags and passed the computational results to a humanoid robot, which then hit the target seven times consecutively in a real environment.

Key Points

  • Google Argon is now open to global developers after a limited release.
  • Pricing starts at $2 per million input tokens, doubling in December.
  • It's cheaper than OpenAI's GPT-6Astra but faces internal skepticism about coding.
  • The model shows promise in robotics, with a humanoid robot achieving seven consecutive hits.
  • Argon combines multimodal reasoning, agent coding, and physical understanding.