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Argon reportedly matches Astra at lower cost

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The newsletter reports Gemini 4 Argon tying GPT-6 Astra on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index at 60% of its cost.

Reported metric: 60% of the cost

Reporting date: 2026-10-03 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to October 3, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)
Source linked by the October 3 issue (artificialanalysis.ai)
Source linked by the October 3 issue (x.com)

Indexed from Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross’s October 3, 2026 newsletter. Linked-source claims have not been independently verified.

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Argon reportedly matches Astra at lower cost
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-10-03
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-10-03-argon-index
Claim: The newsletter reports Gemini 4 Argon tying GPT-6 Astra on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index at 60% of its cost.
Attributed sources:
- Welcome to October 3, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-october-3-2026
- Source linked by the October 3 issue — https://artificialanalysis.ai/articles/gemini-4-argon-google-top-three-labs
- Source linked by the October 3 issue — https://x.com/ArtificialAnlys/status/2105392625788637299
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