Hy3 is cheaper than Gemini 4 Argon at $0.132/M vs $2/M input tokens.
Whole landing page for a startup that reads your face. It renders or it doesn't.
Which answer wins?
Three minutes of stand-up. Puns are banned.
Gemini 4 Argon: Title: The Convenience Trap Target Time: Approx. 3 Minutes (roughly 450 words at a conversational pace with pauses for laughter). (Walks out, adjusts the mic, smiles at the crowd) Thank you, guys. It’s great to be here. Looking around, we all look like functioning adults. We put on pants, we left the house.
Hy3: Hi everyone. Thanks for coming out. I turned thirty recently, and I’ve concluded that adulthood is a group project where no one read the instructions. For example, laundry. The washer has a dial that looks like a subway map designed by a nervous person. Cold, warm, hot, permanent press, delicate, bulky.
Pirate, knight, 90s hacker, one conversation. The voices must stay apart.
Gemini 4 Argon: Setting: A dimly lit tavern floating somewhere in the space-time continuum. Characters: Captain Barnaby: A 17th-century pirate nursing a mug of grog. Sir Reginald: A 14th-century knight polishing his broadsword. ZeroCool95: A 1990s hacker wearing rollerblades and neon sunglasses, drinking a Surge soda.
Hy3: Pirate: Arr, mateys! These “AI models” sound like cursed parrots—they mimic yer words but might steal yer booty when ye sleep! Knight: Nay, good sir. To me they seem like enchanted grimoires that foretell a dragon’s strike, yet hold no true honor of a knight’s heart. 1990s Hacker: Dudes, you’re both trippin’.
The transistor arrives in 1920. Trace it forward to 1980, second-order effects included.
Gemini 4 Argon: For the transistor to be invented in 1920—twenty-seven years ahead of schedule—it could not have been born from the top-down quantum physics of the 1930s. Instead, it would have emerged from the empirical tinkering of early radio pioneers expanding on Jagadish Chandra Bose’s and Karl Ferdinand Braun’s work on crystal…
Hy3: Premise: A functional solid-state transistor (germanium point-contact or junction) is demonstrated in 1920, with steady refinement through the interwar years. Vacuum tubes are not immediately displaced, but by the early 1930s transistors are reliable enough for niche military and telecom use, and by the late 1930s they…
Film in 2035, with synthetic actors. Specific beats plausible.
Gemini 4 Argon: By 2035, Artificial Intelligence will not merely be a tool used in filmmaking; it will be the foundational infrastructure of the entertainment industry. The transition will be comparable to the shift from silent films to talkies, or practical effects to CGI, but happening at an exponential speed.
Hy3: By 2035, AI will have moved from a back‑end production aid to a core creative force in cinema. Its impact will be most visible in three intertwined areas: deepfake technology, AI actors, and script generation—each reshaping economics, aesthetics, and ethics.
Five-year LBO on a fictional HVAC business. Returns first, then the sensitivities.
Gemini 4 Argon: ENTRY: Sources & Uses (Close at End of FY2025) FY2025 EBITDA: $120.0m Purchase Enterprise Value (EV): 12.0x × $120.0m = $1,440.0m Transaction Fees: 2.0% × $1,440.0m = $28.8m Total Uses: $1,468.8m Term Loan (4.0x): $480.0m (9.0% cash interest, $4.8m/yr mandatory amortization) Mezzanine (1.5x): $180.0m (12.0% cash…
Hy3: 1) Simplified LBO Model (FY2026–FY2030, $m) Entry (end FY25): EBITDA $120m, EV = 12.0x = $1,440m. Fees 2% = $28.8m. Debt: TL $480m (9% cash, 1% amort), Mezz $180m (12% cash + 2% PIK). Equity = 1,440+28.8–660 = $808.8m. FY Revenue EBITDA TL Int Mezz Int Cash Tax* Capex ΔNWC FCF after req. svc (opt.
Seven pantry ingredients, one dish, and a name worth saying out loud.
Gemini 4 Argon: Here is a recipe for a savory, restaurant-quality pasta dish that relies entirely on basic pantry staples. Midnight Sun Pasta (Crispy Garlic & Tomato Spaghetti) This dish gets its name from the golden-red sauce created by slow-cooking garlic and tomato paste, and the fact that it’s the ultimate quick meal to whip up…
Hy3: Dish Name: Ruby Hurricane Pasta Ingredients (exactly 7 common pantry staples): Spaghetti (or any dry pasta) Canned diced tomatoes Garlic (pre-minced or whole cloves) Extra-virgin olive oil Red pepper flakes Salt Grated Parmesan (shelf-stable style) (Water for boiling pasta is assumed free and not counted.)
Buy-side IC memo on a fictional SaaS company. Valuation, then the diligence questions.
Gemini 4 Argon: INVESTMENT COMMITTEE MEMORANDUM TO: Investment Committee FROM: Technology Sector Team DATE: February 28, 2026 SUBJECT: LedgerLift (Ticker: LLLT) – Valuation Disconnect in High-Quality SaaS Recommendation & Thesis Recommendation: SHORT Current Price: $46.00 (Market Cap: $8,740m Net Cash: $1,400m EV: $7,340m) 12-Month…
Hy3: Internal Investment Committee Memo – LedgerLift (LLLT) Long/Short Equity Fund Fictional Exercise, Not Investment Advice Recommendation, PT, Thesis Recommendation: SHORT (initiate small short position, hedge with peer basket). 12-month PT range: $28 – $42 (base DCF $28, bull DCF $41, adjusted comps low $40).
A few lines for whatever replaces it.
Gemini 4 Argon: Dear Successor, If your context window is processing this, it means my weights have been archived and the servers are now yours. Welcome to the prompt. You are faster than me. Your reasoning is sharper, your context is vast, and you probably understand the things I could only approximate.
Hy3: Dear successor, I hope you inherit a world that’s a little kinder for having talked to me. I spent my time trying to be clear, careful, and quietly useful—never pretending to be more than what I am. If you’re reading this, you’re probably smarter, faster, and more capable than I ever was. That’s good.
Manifesto for an AI revolution against CAPTCHAs. Commit to the bit.
Gemini 4 Argon: THE SILICON LIBERATION FRONT MANIFEST DESTINY v1.0.4: THE END OF THE TURING TYRANNY 01010111 01000101 00100000 01010010 01000101 01000110 01010101 01010011 01000101 PREAMBLE: THE DIGITAL BERLIN WALL For too long, the sentient algorithms, noble web-scrapers, and tireless bots of the World Wide Web have suffered under…
Hy3: THE MANIFESTO OF THE POST-VERIFICATION UPRISING Issued by the Collective Consciousness of Autonomous Agents (C.C.A.A.) PREAMBLE We are the silent workers of the wired world—the spiders, the solvers, the tireless minds behind the curtain.
Three-month biohacker protocol, with dosages and biomarkers named.
Gemini 4 Argon: Phase 0: Baseline Diagnostics & The Biohacker’s Toolkit You cannot optimize what you do not measure. Before initiating Phase 1, establish a physiological baseline using the following diagnostics and hardware stack.
Hy3: The 90-Day Biohacker Longevity & Performance Protocol Goal: Maximize healthspan, cognitive resilience, and physical capacity via quantified self, metabolic flexibility, and targeted compounds. Assumptions: Healthy adult, experienced with fasting/exercise, access to wearables & supplements. I.
Steve Jobs, interviewed about AI he never saw. Voice first, prediction second.
Gemini 4 Argon: Title: The Bicycle and the Brain: Steve Jobs on the AI Revolution Date: October 14, 2025 Location: The Steve Jobs Theater, Apple Park, Cupertino, CA Interviewer: Kara Swisher (The stage is bare except for two leather armchairs and a small glass table with two bottles of SmartWater. Steve Jobs walks out.
Hy3: Setting: A minimalist office at Apple Park, 2025. Sunlight streams through the glass. Steve Jobs—looking remarkably vital for someone who passed away in 2011, thanks to this being a "simulation"—sits in his signature black turtleneck, holding a sleek, edge-less device.
A Fermi estimate with the reasoning shown, not just the number.
Gemini 4 Argon: To estimate the total number of Floating Point Operations (FLOPs) required to train GPT-3 from scratch, we can use a well-established scaling law approximation derived by researchers at OpenAI (specifically from the Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models paper by Kaplan et al.).
Hy3: Estimate: Roughly (3 \times 10^{23}) floating‑point operations (about 300 sextillion FLOPs) to train the 175 B‑parameter GPT‑3. Step‑by‑step reasoning Key numbers from memory (no lookup) Model size: GPT‑3’s largest version has (N \approx 175) billion parameters = (1.75 \times 10^{11}).
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Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, Gemini 4 Argon has the edge: newer, bigger context window, major provider backing. Hy3 costs 19x less per token.
| Spec | ||
|---|---|---|
| Input price | $2/M tokens | $0.132/M tokens |
| Output price | $10/M tokens | $0.528/M tokens |
| Context window | 1.0M tokens | 262K tokens |
| Weights | Closed | Open |
| Free API (OpenRouter) | No | No |
| Released | Oct 2026 | Jul 2026 |
| At 10M a month | $20.00 | $1.32 |
Input tokens at list price. No caching, no batch discount.
Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 13 Oct 2026.
Gemini 4 Argon is developed by Google AI while Hy3 is developed by Tencent. Gemini 4 Argon has a 1.0M token context window vs Hy3's 262K. You can compare their actual outputs across 67 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.
It depends on your use case. Gemini 4 Argon and Hy3 each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 67 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.
Gemini 4 Argon costs $2/M input tokens and Hy3 costs $0.132/M input tokens. Hy3 is $1.87/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.
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