How Many Tokens Did Gemini 4 Use in 72 Hours?

Sundar Pichai says Gemini 4 Argon drew almost 25 trillion tokens in the first 72 hours after launch, about 3 times what Gemini 3.0 saw in that same window. The launch is capacity constrained. Customer feedback has been really good, and he still wants the model to get better at coding. Google's engineers have loved using it internally, and the team keeps shipping refinements from that use.

Alex Heath asked how Google gates a model this large and expensive to serve. Sundar Pichai says Google distilled the Gemini 3.0 models into versions that are nearly as capable and much more efficient, and that work is underway for Gemini 4 so more people can use it. At launch, Google opened Argon to all Ultra tiers and the Pro tier in the Gemini app. Safety work included the Fairwind program, early access for the U.S. government and cyber researchers, and wide internal tests before the external release.

Sundar Pichai says Google is serving the large model pretty fast for its size, and access will keep expanding.