Google's Gemini 4 Argon token volume claim and Pichai's frontier commitment

Paige Bailey says on X that Gemini 4 Argon handled three times the token volume of Gemini 3 in its first 72 hours.

The post gives no transcript, Google figure or other source for that number, so the claim is unverified. Her post refers to a Big Technology podcast in which Alex Kantrowitz interviews Google CEO Sundar Pichai about compute trade-offs.

Josh Woodward's X post quotes Pichai saying Google is "so committed to being at the frontier" and that it "won't do it any other way." His post links to the same podcast, which covers recursive self-improvement, AI infrastructure and compute costs. Neither post confirms the token figure.