On October 1, Alphabet rose 2% in pre-market trading. On the news front, Google officially released its flagship AI model Gemini 4 Argon, which ranked first or tied for first in 13 out of 18 benchmark tests, excelling particularly in knowledge-intensive tasks and long-context reasoning. The model's output token limit has been expanded to the million-token level, while its promotional pricing is set at just $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens — roughly one-fifth of competing products. The release came faster than market expectations, as DeepMind had previously indicated Gemini 4 was still in early post-training stages.

Simultaneously, Google's Sun Catcher project successfully launched its first prototype satellite aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 Transporter-18 mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base. The satellite carries four proprietary Trillium TPU chips, marking the first time scaled AI inference chips have been sent into low Earth orbit for on-orbit validation. Google plans to test inter-satellite laser communication networking with a two-satellite mission in 2027.

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