# Zvi Mowshowitz reviews Gemini 4 Argon's model and safety cards

> Original title: Gemini 4 Argon: The Model and Safety Cards

- Source: Don't Worry About the Vase (Zvi Mowshowitz)
- Published: 2026-10-26T12:58:47.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/ftt6daceqaca1592z6qsfsilz
- Original: https://thezvi.substack.com/p/gemini-4-argon-the-model-and-safety

## Summary

Zvi Mowshowitz reviews Google's Gemini 4 Argon model and safety cards, which together run 231 pages. He says Argon is clearly stronger than Gemini 3.8 Flash, with lower hallucination rates and strong prompt-injection resistance, but finds its eval awareness much higher. He also says the safety card often reports numbers without explaining what the tests measured, and he questions some of its comparisons and thresholds.

## Why it matters

The review separates the model card's reported gains from the safety card's gaps, giving readers a critical reading of how Google assesses its frontier model.