Google launches Gemini 4 Carbon AI model with cybersecurity focus

Summarised from 2 outlets · Updated 29 Oct, 09:57 · Archive

Google has released Gemini 4 Carbon, its latest AI model, claiming top scores on multiple benchmarks including cybersecurity and coding.

Google has released Gemini 4 Carbon, its latest frontier AI model, announced on Wednesday. The company claims it ranks first on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (v5.0) benchmark, ahead of Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra. Google says the model offers a 'significant leap' in cybersecurity, with improvements over Argon, which Google released earlier this month.

Google highlights Carbon's performance in cybersecurity benchmarks, where it achieves the highest scores on SEC-bench Pro, which measures an AI model's ability to discover real-world bugs, and ExploitGym, which measures how a model can turn vulnerabilities into exploits. The company claims Carbon excels at finding and prioritising vulnerabilities, patching them at their root cause, and is twice as likely to generate secure code compared to Argon.

Beyond cybersecurity, Google says Carbon is better at avoiding shortcuts, resisting prompt injection attacks, and collaborating with users. The model is built for completing longer tasks, with Google's internal teams reporting it can 'run for days' to tackle complex, multi-step engineering tasks. The company also claims it cuts unsupported claims by two times compared to Argon.

Carbon is currently available only to a select group of cybersecurity defence companies for pre-release testing. Google plans to expand access to other trusted partners through its Fairwind Program before wider release, following the rollout pattern used for Gemini 4 Argon. The model will launch at the same introductory price as Argon: two dollars per million input tokens and ten dollars per million output tokens.

How it is being reported

• Google's Gemini 4 Carbon promises 'significant leap' in AI coding and cybersecurityGoogle's latest Gemini 4 Carbon AI model boasts top benchmark scores in areas like cybersecurity and coding.Engadget · 29 Oct, 09:41
• Google launches Gemini 4 Carbon with a ‘significant leap’ in cybersecurityGoogle has released its latest frontier model, Gemini 4 Carbon, offering "significant gains" in coding, agentic tasks, and cybersecurity. In an announcement on Wednesday, Google highlights Carbon's top spot on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (v5.0) benchmark, with Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra trailing behind. The new Gemini 4 Carbon model offers improvements over […]The Verge · 28 Oct, 20:03

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