{"id":931780,"date":"2026-10-13T18:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T18:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/931780\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T18:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T18:40:09","slug":"gemini-4-argon-is-now-available-for-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/931780\/","title":{"rendered":"Gemini 4 Argon is now available for everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speeding up robotics development<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"ee0f6\">By bringing together advanced visual-semantic reasoning, deep physical understanding, and autonomous code generation, Argon unlocks new workflows across the robotics stack and accelerates progress toward physical AGI. This leap in capability is reflected in Argon\u2019s performance on the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/embodiedreasoning\/ERQA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Embodied Reasoning (ERQA) benchmark<\/a>, which tests a model&#8217;s ability to understand and solve physical, spatial problems in 3D environments. Relying on pure reasoning, Argon outperforms all other frontier models, with an 87% score.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"3q7gg\">To demonstrate these capabilities in action, we tested Argon\u2019s ability to learn an out-of-distribution physical skill simply by watching. In an internal test, Argon watched a raw video of a human playing cornhole, mapped the spatial coordinates of the environment, and calculated the required whole-body joint movements. It then autonomously built the simulation code. When transferred onto <a href=\"https:\/\/apptronik.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apptronik\u2019s<\/a> Apollo humanoid, the robot quickly sank seven consecutive shots in a real-world trial.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"7u67c\">This &#8220;Video-to-Sim-to-Real&#8221; pipeline compresses weeks of manual simulation modeling into a few hours, transforming ordinary videos into a scalable, infinite training ground for robotics. Learn more about how this accelerates the pace of development in robotics in <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.googleblog.com\/gemini-4-argon-for-robotics\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">our developers blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speeding up robotics development By bringing together advanced visual-semantic reasoning, deep physical understanding, and autonomous code generation, Argon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":931781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,2286,61],"class_list":["post-931780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-none","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=931780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/931781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}