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Google announces Gemini 4 Carbon with ‘significant gains across coding and agentic tasks’
Following the launch of Argon two weeks ago, Google today announced Gemini 4 Carbon as its next frontier model.
There are “significant gains” in coding, agentic tasks, and cybersecurity defense (finding vulnerabilities). Notably, “Carbon ranks #1 on the recently updated v5.0 of Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index at 59.”
Google says this fast release is due to its researchers and models “working hand in hand to advance capabilities faster.”
Based on user feedback following the last launch, Google worked to improve Carbon across “coding, agentic, and scientific tasks, as well as full-stack web development and multimodal understanding.”
On the safety front, Google worked to improve alignment and trained Carbon to “respond to complex or high-pressure tasks in the right way.”
Officially, Gemini 4 Carbon is “coming soon to developers, businesses, and consumers.” The model will first be available to “cyber defenders” this week.
Once available, Google will offer introductory pricing of “$2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, with cached input tokens priced at 95% off input token price.” Afterward, it will cost $4 per 1M input tokens and $20 per 1M output tokens.
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