Google just launched its best AI model at half price and told everyone the exact date the discount dies. Gemini 4 Argon costs $2 per million input tokens and $10 for output right now. On November 30 that doubles to $4 and $20. Google printed the price hike into the launch announcement itself, which almost no company does, because telling customers "this gets twice as expensive in 48 days" is usually terrible marketing. Here it's the whole strategy. Developers are the stickiest customers in…

Sundar Pichai@sundarpichai21h ago

Gemini 4 Argon is here. It’s available globally today for developers and enterprises in the paid tier of the Gemini API and the Gemini platform, for Ultra subscribers in Google Antigravity, and Ultra and Pro subscribers in the Gemini app and Search. Hope you all enjoy it!