Google and Meta rejoin the frontier model contest
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Google and Meta said new releases can compete at the frontier, returning attention to a race recently led by Anthropic and OpenAI. Anthropic also widened evaluator access, while Cloudflare opened a self-hosted app platform.
Google and Meta return to frontier race
Google introduced Gemini 4 Argon for complex coding and agentic work, while PyTorch said Meta released the weights for Muse Spark Open. François Chollet said Argon performed similarly to Astra on ARC-AGI-3, while Nathan Lambert criticized the Meta model's license.
Argon is built to solve highly complex coding and agentic problems at Google and beyond.
Google, Google · On XArgon has a similar performance profile on ARC-AGI-3 as Astra. Google is back at the frontier.
François Chollet, Keras creator · On Xthe most capable US open-weights model to date.
PyTorch, PyTorch · On XThe Meta Muse Open License is trash.
Nathan Lambert, Open model researcher · On XOur story: Google and Meta jump back into AI race with claimed frontier models
Anthropic broadens evaluator access
Anthropic, Perplexity, MTS and 2 moreCloudflare releases Void as open source
Cloudflare, Evan You
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