Google releases Gemini 4 Carbon with agent swarm feature
Original title: Google releases Gemini 4 Carbon with agent ‘swarm’ feature
Paying developers and AI Ultra users get Carbon today at $2 per million input tokens, about a fifth of GPT-6 Astra.
Google is rolling Gemini 4 Carbon out to the public after a two-week preview for selected cybersecurity defenders. The company says Carbon targets complex multi-step coding and open-ended research, while Argon remains its choice for most engineering work. A previewed Antigravity swarm feature turns one prompt into a coordinated team of agents. Availability for free or lower-tier users is not stated.
Unconfirmed: Google's claim that Carbon is its strongest model rests on company-selected benchmarks.
- Introductory output pricing is $10 per million tokens.
- Those introductory rates double at the end of November.
- Google's cited benchmarks place Carbon behind Fable 5.2.
- Carbon is in the Gemini API, AI Studio, the Gemini app, Search AI Mode, and Antigravity.
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Google is rolling out its latest AI model, Gemini 4 Carbon, to the general public after releasing it to a select group of "cybersecurity defenders" two weeks ago. Google claims Carbon is its "strongest model" yet, and capable of competing with the very best systems from Anthropic and OpenAI.
By Robert Hart · theverge.com
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