Google makes Gemini 4 Carbon generally available
Original title: Gemini 4 Carbon arrives just in time to feel like yesterday's news in the fastest model cycle yet
Paid users can access Carbon now; Google says it complements Argon but spends more tokens on hard tasks.
Google has made Gemini 4 Carbon generally available after a two-week test for selected security experts. Google says Carbon complements Gemini 4 Argon for work that pushes model intelligence, including multi-step coding and open-ended research, while using more tokens. Paid customers can reach it through the Gemini API, Google AI Studio, Android Studio, and Gemini for Business. Google also previewed Antigravity agent swarms and published early cyber and safety results.
Unconfirmed: Zero-day finds, exploit demonstrations, detection gains, and several benchmark leads are Google's claims; the prompt-injection result is cut off.
- Introductory pricing is $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens.
- The cited standard price is $4 input and $20 output per million tokens.
- Google says Carbon led CursorBench 4.0, WANDR, and AutomationBench.
- Carbon passed 92 percent of 375 tasks on an internal honesty test, versus 70 percent for Argon.
- Google says Fairwind Carbon found zero-days at two SaaS providers in under two hours.
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5 min read at the-decoder.comGoogle is making Gemini 4 Carbon generally available after a two-week testing phase. The model ranks first in several benchmarks, in some cases ahead of Anthropic's new Fable 5. 2, at less than half the per-task cost.
By Matthias Bastian · the-decoder.com
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