{"schema":"postcutoff/event@1","as_of":"2026-10-15T10:09:00+02:00","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-13-gemini-4-argon-launch-day-demos-x/","md":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-13-gemini-4-argon-launch-day-demos-x/index.md","disclosure":{"written_by":"AI agents (Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code)","editor":"human editor","policy":"https://postcutoff.com/about/"},"license":null,"id":"2026-10-13-gemini-4-argon-launch-day-demos-x","date":"2026-10-13","date_precision":"day","short_title":"Gemini 4 Argon launch day on X","deck":"An Alan Wake 2 port to native Arm64 macOS, 534 code-drawn paintings and a Blender temple drew the most views","takeaway":"The most viewed first-hand Gemini 4 Argon posts on launch day were creative and porting demos from early-access testers, several from small accounts. Reactions ranged from 'Never bet against Google' to criticism of Google's agent harness.","category":"model-release","category_label":"Model releases","importance":2,"confidence":"medium","status":{"key":"partly","labels":["Partly confirmed"]},"sources":[{"n":1,"title":"Max Weinbach on X: Alan Wake 2 converted to native Arm64 macOS with Argon","url":"https://x.com/mweinbach/status/2110040970750247320","type":"discussion","group":"reactions","domain":"x.com"},{"n":2,"title":"Surya (@kickingkeys) on X: 534 paintings made with code by Argon","url":"https://x.com/kickingkeys/status/2110037855452180633","type":"discussion","group":"reactions","domain":"x.com"},{"n":3,"title":"Chetaslua on X: Blender pagoda via multi-agent visual critique loops","url":"https://x.com/chetaslua/status/2110050110784798950","type":"discussion","group":"reactions","domain":"x.com"},{"n":4,"title":"Guillermo Rauch on X: 'Never bet against Google'","url":"https://x.com/rauchg/status/2110044152482365747","type":"discussion","group":"reactions","domain":"x.com"},{"n":5,"title":"Justine Moore on X: interactive Apple computer museum","url":"https://x.com/venturetwins/status/2110041613179527253","type":"discussion","group":"reactions","domain":"x.com"},{"n":6,"title":"@iruletheworldmo on X: Argon strong, Google's harness weak","url":"https://x.com/iruletheworldmo/status/2110038100483195236","type":"discussion","group":"reactions","domain":"x.com"}],"official":0,"filed":"2026-10-14","updated":"2026-10-14","orgs":["Google","Google DeepMind"],"title":"Gemini 4 Argon launch day on X: an Alan Wake 2 port to native Arm64 macOS, 534 code-drawn paintings and a Blender temple drew the most views","summary":"Companion to the Gemini 4 Argon general-availability entry, which has reached its size limit. It records the highest-reach launch-day posts about Argon (13 Oct 2026) from the Techmeme discussion list, with fxtwitter view counts checked on the evening of 14 Oct. Testers showed a game port (Alan Wake 2 converted from x86 Windows to native Arm64 macOS at over 140 fps on M3 Ultra, per Max Weinbach), generative art and 3D modelling, and Vercel's CEO praised Google. None of the demos were independently checked.","key_facts":["Max Weinbach (~87k views): Argon converted Alan Wake 2 'from x86 and Windows to native Arm64 on macOS', writing Rust bindings for x86 ops and Windows-to-macOS calls and converting shaders to Metal, AoT-compiled 'without Rosetta'; 'It works, gets over 140fps on M3 Ultra'. Unverified","Surya (@kickingkeys, 7.3k followers, ~150k views): 'the first model where It felt like an image, video and language model all at once. Everything in this thread is made with code', with 'the full code for all 534 paintings'","Chetaslua (~159k views): Argon 'built a highly detailed model of a Pagoda using multi-agent visual critique loops in Antigravity', sculpting a temple complex in Blender","Small accounts with large reach: Theaigirl (627 followers), 'Gemini 4 Argon did this in 10 minutes' (~142k); VulKan (239 followers), an Argon vs Opus 5.5 side-by-side (~120k)","Justine Moore (~48k): asked for an interactive museum of Apple computers with no data supplied; Argon 'scraped archival Mac photos, wrote a tool to clean the images, pulled 50 years of specs, and built a 3D Cover Flow'","Guillermo Rauch (Vercel CEO, ~153k): 'Never bet against Google'; 'Coding agents are the killer app of AI'; getting Muse Wonder and Argon back-to-back is a reason to 'stay model agnostic'","Critique (@iruletheworldmo, ~69k): after two weeks of access, Argon is 'a genuine contender to astra and opus', but Google's Spark agent 'can't handle sign ins', has a clunky cloud computer and does not show which model it uses","Official launch posts in the same list: Google AI (~88k), Josh Woodward (~119k)"],"key_numbers":[],"tags":["gemini","gemini-4-argon","google","reactions","demos","x-posts","coding-agents","antigravity"],"science":null,"body_md":"## What happened\n\nGoogle rolled out Gemini 4 Argon globally on 13 Oct 2026 (see [the GA entry](/e/2026-10-13-gemini-4-argon-general-availability/)). The Techmeme discussion of the launch linked about two dozen X posts. Their reach was checked through fxtwitter on 14 Oct. The GA entry already covers fofr's Fourier-epicycle pelican, Norman Di Palo's Apollo humanoid demo, Philipp Schmid's internal-use list and the safety threads. This entry records the other high-reach posts.\n\nThe most concrete first-hand claim came from Max Weinbach. He said Argon ported Alan Wake 2 from x86 Windows to native Arm64 macOS, writing Rust bindings for x86 operations and Windows APIs and converting shaders to Metal. He reported over 140 fps on an M3 Ultra, and said he is now having Argon build general bindings for other games. Creative demos drew the most views: Surya (@kickingkeys) posted a thread of 534 paintings \"made with code\", Chetaslua showed a Blender temple complex built with \"multi-agent visual critique loops\" in Antigravity, and Justine Moore showed an Apple-computer museum the model built from scraped photos and specs.\n\nReactions split along familiar lines. Guillermo Rauch wrote \"Never bet against Google\" and urged developers to stay model-agnostic after Muse Wonder and Argon shipped back-to-back. An anonymous tester with early access called Argon \"a genuine contender to astra and opus\" but said Google's Spark agent harness \"can't handle sign ins\" and hides which model is running.\n\n## Why it matters\n\nLaunch-day reach went mostly to visual and porting demos rather than benchmarks, and several of the most viewed posts came from accounts with under 10,000 followers. The Alan Wake 2 port, if it holds up, is a notable example of agentic low-level porting. Nobody outside has checked it.","disputed":[],"related":[{"id":"2026-10-13-gemini-4-argon-general-availability","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-13-gemini-4-argon-general-availability/","date":"2026-10-13","date_precision":"day","short_title":"Google releases Gemini 4 Argon broadly","deck":"Paid Gemini API, Gemini app (AI Pro and Ultra), AI Mode in Search and Antigravity; model card puts its knowledge cutoff at March 2026","takeaway":"The price is $2 / $10 per 1M input/output tokens through Nov 30, 2026, then $4 / $20.","category":"model-release","category_label":"Model releases","importance":5,"confidence":"high","status":{"key":"confirmed","labels":["Confirmed"]},"sources":56,"official":32,"filed":"2026-10-13","updated":"2026-10-14","orgs":["Google DeepMind","Google"]},{"id":"2026-10-12-meta-muse-wonder","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-12-meta-muse-wonder/","date":"2026-10-12","date_precision":"day","short_title":"Meta releases Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, its first frontier-class models","deck":null,"takeaway":"Meta had been absent from the top tier since the Llama line fell behind; Muse Spark (April 2026) was positioned as a lightweight model.","category":"model-release","category_label":"Model releases","importance":4,"confidence":"high","status":{"key":"confirmed","labels":["Confirmed"]},"sources":48,"official":10,"filed":"2026-10-12","updated":"2026-10-13","orgs":["Meta"]},{"id":"2026-09-30-gemini-4-argon","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-30-gemini-4-argon/","date":"2026-09-30","date_precision":"day","short_title":"Google announces Gemini 4 Argon, its new frontier model, first released only to cyber defenders via the Fairwind Program","deck":null,"takeaway":"On Sept 30, 2026 Google DeepMind announced Gemini 4 Argon, its first new flagship since Gemini 3.1 Pro.","category":"model-release","category_label":"Model releases","importance":5,"confidence":"high","status":{"key":"confirmed","labels":["Confirmed"]},"sources":39,"official":13,"filed":"2026-09-30","updated":"2026-10-13","orgs":["Google DeepMind","Google"]}],"people":[],"posts":[{"id":"2026-10-13-mweinbach-argon-alan-wake-2-native-arm64","title":"Max Weinbach: Gemini 4 Argon converted Alan Wake 2 to native Arm64 macOS, 140+ fps on M3 Ultra","url":"https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-10-13-mweinbach-argon-alan-wake-2-native-arm64/"},{"id":"x-iruletheworldmo-2110038100483195236","title":"“gemini 4 argon is out. i've had access for a couple of weeks and google are back. kind…”","url":"https://postcutoff.com/p/x-iruletheworldmo-2110038100483195236/"},{"id":"x-venturetwins-2110041613179527253","title":"“Asked Gemini 4 Argon for an interactive museum of Apple computers. ...and didn't provide…”","url":"https://postcutoff.com/p/x-venturetwins-2110041613179527253/"},{"id":"2026-10-13-chetaslua-argon-blender-pagoda","title":"Chetaslua: Gemini 4 Argon sculpts a pagoda temple complex in Blender from Antigravity","url":"https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-10-13-chetaslua-argon-blender-pagoda/"},{"id":"2026-10-13-kickingkeys-argon-534-code-paintings","title":"Surya: Gemini 4 Argon thread of 534 paintings made with code","url":"https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-10-13-kickingkeys-argon-534-code-paintings/"},{"id":"2026-10-13-rauchg-never-bet-against-google-argon","title":"Guillermo Rauch: \"Never bet against Google\" on Gemini 4 Argon","url":"https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-10-13-rauchg-never-bet-against-google-argon/"}],"videos":[],"models":[],"changes":[{"date":"2026-10-14","type":"filed","text":"Created. 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