With Gemini 4 Argon, your research has new ways to tell its story 📖 We used Nano Banana, Veo, and Argon to turn a dense academic PDF into a full-color, animated storybook in the @GeminiApp.

Oct 15, 2026 · 3:15 PM UTC

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Ever automated a multi-modal document ingestion pipeline only to realize turning a dense academic PDF into structured outputs breaks your raw parser boundaries? Converting complex layouts with embedded mathematical matrix schemas and unbuffered tables inside a single prompt session usually triggers brutal layout extraction stalls under production load thresholds. Look at the profiling logic inside this thread. How does your backend infrastructure handle dynamic ingestion validation to ensure byte-for-byte token purity? Let's discuss! 👇
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Argon usage limit is so bad , need an improvement
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every phd student just found a way to get their advisor to read the paper lmao
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Amazing experience, still, it burns so many tokens... Hopefully that will change at some point
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Argon is basically like that
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sorry not sorry
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1,548 bookmarks on turning a dense pdf into an animated storybook. this is how i'd finally read my car insurance policy lol first test: upload the pdf and ask "turn this into an 8-page picture book for a 12-year-old, one rule per page, keep every number exact"
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@grok write the prompt that is used in the video so I can copy paste it and try it myself
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That's cool but the limit usage is bad even for a pro user
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It doesn't convert pdf or latex to word correctly 😕
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looks great but I'd want to know what got simplified. a link back to the paper per scene?
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It's worst research tool and worst ai. Everything will be linked to cognitive abilities. Same 7 to 8 points in all the research's whether you ask it for car search or biology or data science. Pathetic
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But what guaranty should google by use of gemini they should not makes fraud or fraud added content add in story book
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Usage limit is crazy, a few prompts and it runs out.
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Yup it only costs you your entire limit on ultra to do this
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Another nail in the coffin of user created content. My prediction is youtube will primarily be generated content by youtube for you, not AI videos generated by third party users.
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That dense academic PDF finally has a shot at bedtime reading.
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Beautiful but very low limit, hope you will fix it asap
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Fix the gemini UI please , the way it write down the answers is so ugly specially the tables . Pls fix this crap ASAP it is hard to look at
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Wonder if Argon can handle math-heavy papers?
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turning a dense paper into an animated storybook might finally get some of those PDFs actually read
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okey i think i will pause chatgpt subscription and get this one - but when i tried to cancel it gave me another month free. Argon i will meet u in 2 months my boy - imagine using this feature on lacan's Écrits!!
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Where is computer use? You're still in the dark ages. Hoped a lot for Argon, but it’s still not out of the cocoon. @Scobleizer @rohanpaul_ai Heavy traces of earlier invasion still sting; they need to clean up the cache. Computer use could have increased the scope, but I don’t see this breaking the ice yet.
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Turning a dense PDF into an illustrated story is a genuinely useful idea. This could make research way more accessible.
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It's not useful so far
I used this to work on a VR simulation for early detection and diagnosis of MCI and EOD. I gave it the project which had already been worked on successfully for a week by OpenAI Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 on Ultracode. Both Astra and Opus produced a system one shot immediately. I burned through two Pro accounts worth of tokens for Argon. It churned for over two hours and produced nothing useful. It didn't even produce a running system. As usual Google are making you pay to develop their shitware.
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i've seen visual summaries hide citation errors so page-level source links matter more than animation
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This is where things get really exciting! 📖✨ I'd love to turn my own stories into illustrated, animated experiences with original music. The idea of bringing storytelling, animation, and music together in one world is fascinating to me. 🎶❤️
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Students with student accounts and Pro users should have unlimited access to Google's Argon model.
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It burns so many tokens!!
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turning research into a storybook is what you do when nobody wants to read the actual research
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Still waiting for Gemini 4 Argon in Antigravity with my Pro account 😭
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turning dense academic papers into visual narratives makes complex research way more accessible for cross discipline teams
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A paid plan costing $100 shouldn't be like this; a higher usage quota is needed. really.If the data allowance increases, I will continue my subscription, but right now it is not sustainable.
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animations are fun until someone measures them. i ran the snowboarder test on Opus 5.5: gravity came out at 9.81 m/s², and there's one bug right at the lip.
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