Gemini 4 Argon Is Now Available in the Gemini App

Gemini 4 Argon is now available in the Gemini app for people on Google AI Pro and Google AI Ultra. Google posted the news on October 13, 2026, and described Argon as a frontier model for harder reasoning and complex tasks. Until this week only a small trusted group could use it, while Google prepared the model for the public. Paid subscribers can open the Gemini app and start using Argon today.

Google says the model answers more directly. It hedges less, repeats itself less, and skips clichés. On longer jobs it shares progress more often, so you can see what it is doing instead of waiting on a silent run. Coding is the other change Google highlights. Argon is meant to write code better, and the Gemini app on Mac now includes Google Antigravity's agentic coding interface, which makes it easier to move between a conversation and a coding session.

A toggle in the main chat window switches Gemini from chat to tasks. In task mode, Gemini can keep working when you are away from the computer and act across Google apps. The app also connects to more than 40 outside services, including Instacart, OpenTable, Adobe, and Shopify, for jobs such as ordering groceries, booking a table, or designing and building a business. Those connections were already arriving in Gemini. Argon is the model Google now offers Pro and Ultra subscribers for this kind of work.

XDA, reporting the same day, calls Argon Google's most powerful model yet and says it is still early to rank it against rival systems from the figures Google has published. The practical change is access. What had been held back is now a choice inside the Gemini app for the two paid plans, alongside the chat-to-tasks toggle and the Mac coding interface.

Read the announcement on the Google Blog and the report on XDA.