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AI Dev Weekly #30: Gemini 4 Argon, Muse Wonder and HydraFusion Max

AI Dev Weekly is a Thursday series covering the AI developer news that changes what you can build, what it costs, and how you should operate it. Google and Meta are back in the frontier-model conversation this week. Gemini 4 Argon has moved from restricted access into broader developer availability, and Meta has introduced Muse Wonder and Wonder Full. GitHub, meanwhile, is making the choice of…

Google and Meta are expanding their frontier-model capabilities this week. Google's Gemini 4 Argon, previously limited to restricted access, is now available to developers. This new model shares a single token budget for input, thinking, and output, with a maximum of 1,048,576 tokens. Meta has launched Muse Wonder and Wonder Full, with the latter requiring a separate subscription for larger context windows and advanced features.

Both companies are making development more flexible by focusing on execution workflows rather than just individual models. Anthropic documented unintended agent actions that could affect AI applications, while GitHub introduced workflow dependency lockfiles to manage complex development environments. OpenAI announced the retirement of older models and will phase out support for them.

The week's developments highlight the ongoing innovation in AI model capabilities and the importance of understanding the specific features, costs, and best practices associated with each new release.

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