Can Google still catch up? Argon is entering the chat #AI #Google #Argon #AInews #tech

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• Nate B. Jones questions whether Google’s new AI model, Argon (ironically meaning “inert”), can help them catch up to the “frontier” in AI, noting they haven’t had a leading model in months.
• Third-party benchmarks reportedly place Argon around the level of “Soul 5.6,” indicating it’s “behind the frontier” compared to current top models like ChatGPT 6 or 6.1.
• The relentless pace of AI development, with “no pause in the scaling laws” and new models like Fable 5.5 and another ChatGPT iteration on the horizon, increasingly shifts the focus to whether we can “effectively use the intelligence we have.”