Hacker News

points by hiddencost 1 day ago | 0 comments

They released Argon shortly after announcing it, so I think some benefit of the doubt is reasonable here. They claim they're already evaluating it via the government.

I suspect they're announcing it for two reasons: to get ahead of all the leaks; and because it's earnings report day.

[–] user43928 1 day ago

Doesn't Google have a particularly bad record recently at making their models publicly available?

Especially on their Plus tier for Gemini.

I think it's a fair concern that this might take weeks and trail Fable 5.5.

[–] spankalee 1 day ago

They released Argon shortly after announcing it, so I think some benefit of the doubt is reasonable here.

[–] willis936 1 day ago

Released to who? Workspace pro accounts are still on 3.1. Google's story isn't self consistent here.

[–] hn_go_brrrrr 1 day ago

Google has always hated Dasher users. They're just continuing the long tradition.

[–] hangrybear666 1 day ago

I've bought my girlfriend a Google ai plus sub because she's not a developer and just wants some search and image generation but the fact that she's still stuck on flash 3.6 is a joke, why would I keep paying for that at this point

[–] deno 1 day ago

If you have Pro or Ultra you could add her to "family", up to 5 people can share one subscription. Also up to 5 people can share the potential account ban. Otherwise cool feature, I recommend.

[–] wasabi991011 1 day ago

Not really[1]. I had access to Argon within an hour of the release announcement.

The Google AI Plus tier does not give better model access than free, it is strictly for usage limits. Same thing as ChatGPT Go (which currently only has access to GPT-5.6 Luna, same as the free tier too.)

[1] For consumers at least. IIRC google business/entreprise accounts have worse model access even in the business/entreprise version of Google AI Pro.

[–] diegolas 19 hours ago

i got argon the day it was released on a subsidized (student) pro account

[–] hiddencost 1 day ago

I think the majority of traffic is from Enterprise customerd that goes through their API. Their consumer facing products do lag, but I don't think they care.