Google DeepMind@GoogleDeepMind · Oct 14, 2026Gemini 4 Argon is already unlocking new scientific breakthroughs in quantum computing, nuclear fusion, protein design…
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Google's Gemini 4 Argon AI is accelerating scientific breakthroughs in quantum computing, nuclear fusion, and protein design, including disproving a 60-year-old plasma physics assumption and designing novel enzymes in hours. Google is offering 10,000 scientists free access to the highest usage tier for 6 months to further research.
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Argon is helping accelerate progress across both quantum error correction and algorithm design. 🧮
Ben Jaderberg@benjaderberg · Oct 13, 2026First, we used Argon to translate an internal version of our quantum error correction decoder, AlphaQubit, into a single, highly optimized hardware “megakernel,” nearly doubling inference throughput.
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Researchers discovered novel 3D magnetic field designs with Argon that further disprove a 60-year-old assumption in plasma physics known as Grad's conjecture. ↓
Opal Issan@opalissan · Oct 13, 2026We’ve found 2 new families of counterexamples to the long-standing (nearly 60-year-old) Grad’s conjecture in plasma physics using Gemini 4 Argon in our new paper, with Jonathan Citrin, Brendan Tracey, Matt Landreman at the University of Maryland: arxiv.org/abs/2610.07304!
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Argon also compressed the process of enzyme engineering into a matter of hours to design five lab-verified serine esterases. 🧬
Ryan Krueger@RyanKrue · Oct 13, 2026Over the past few weeks, we have been putting Gemini 4 Argon to the test on protein engineering workflows at Google DeepMind, and we have some interesting initial (zero shot!) results to share. 🧵👇
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