Gemini 4 Argon lands in the Gemini app: fewer hedges in answers, and tasks that keep running after you leave your desk

The Gemini app now offers Gemini 4 Argon for frontier reasoning and improved performance on complex tasks, with answers that are more direct, repeat less and skip clichés. The previous app experience hedged more, repeated itself more and shared less progress on longer tasks. Google states that Argon delivers improved performance across complex tasks and describes it sharing progress more often and more effectively on longer tasks.

Switching between chatting and coding is shortened, with Google Antigravity's agentic coding interface available directly in the Gemini macOS app. Coding and chatting previously sat behind separate entry points that users had to move between. Google cites major improvements in coding as the reason for bringing Antigravity's agentic coding interface into the Gemini macOS app.

A chat-to-tasks toggle in the main chat window lets Gemini keep working across Google apps while the user is away from the computer. Gemini previously helped mainly while the user interacted with it inside the chat window. Google places the toggle in the main chat window and says that in tasks mode Gemini can work for the user even when they are not at their computer.

This report covers the Gemini app updates Google announced: Gemini 4 Argon becoming available, Antigravity's agentic coding interface arriving in the Gemini macOS app, the chat-to-tasks toggle in the main chat window, and connections to more than 40 apps. The intended users are Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers, and Google says these updates are available starting today.

Google does not give the size of Argon's performance gains, a comparison baseline or evaluation setup, nor does it say which Google apps tasks mode covers or what limits apply to the cross-app connections. The claims of more direct answers, less repetition and fewer clichés are Google's description without independent verification.