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What changedGoogle says Gemini 4 Argon has helped optimise memory use across its data centres, freeing more than 300 TiB once changes are rolled out, with estimated total savings of 500 TiB to 1 PiB. Those figures are Google’s account of internal work, not independently reported measurements.
The company also says Argon agents replaced 32,000 lines of SIMD code in a Rust port of its libgav1 video decoder. Google says the resulting memory-safe decoder runs 2.7 times faster than that Rust port, with identical video output, bringing it closer to the optimised C++ version.
On external benchmarks, Google reports a 77.9% score on DeepSWE v1.1 for long-horizon software engineering. It also says Argon tied for first place at 68% on CWE-bench v1, which measures vulnerability remediation.
Sources and evidence- Gemini 4 Argon: our next era of frontier intelligence – blog.google: Google says Argon enabled substantial memory savings in its data centres, accelerated a Rust video decoder, and achieved leading results on named software-engineering and vulnerability-remediation benchmarks.
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