What changed in AI today

• Available now via the API in AI Studio and Gemini platform, plus Google AI Ultra and Pro subscriber access in the Gemini app.
• Introductory pricing is $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, with cached input 95% off.
• Google says Argon ranks #1 on the Vals Index, which measures performance across finance, coding, legal and tax work.
• Google reports Argon helped its own teams raise agentic code submissions by more than 35% in Antigravity.

Why it matters for marketers: Content and marketing teams using Gemini tools get a model Google positions for multi-step professional work, at a stated introductory price, though the Vals ranking is Google's own report.

• Palabra.ai claims under 1 second latency and charges $0.04 per minute for API speech-to-speech translation.
• Google says Gemini 3.5 Live Translate covers 70+ languages but runs a few seconds behind the speaker.
• Apple's Live Translation runs entirely on device with 10 language variants, requiring recent AirPods and iOS 26.
• Teams Interpreter's language count is listed as 9 in admin docs and 10 on the support page.

Why it matters for marketers: Content teams planning multilingual calls or webinars should compare latency and per-minute cost, then pilot on their own language pairs, since counts aren't directly comparable.

• 1.6 billion parameter model; also transcribes English, French, Spanish and Portuguese with the same weights.
• Averages 20.92% WER across six Arabic test sets, versus 23.17% for the best published leaderboard result.
• Internal Emirati evaluation: 22.73% WER and 10.19% CER, 4.07 points below Qwen3-Omni, the next best.
• Live now as a Hugging Face Demo Space; API access and native applications are planned, not yet available.

Why it matters for marketers: Teams producing Arabic or Gulf-dialect transcripts or captions can test a free demo now, though API access is not yet released.