Google's strongest model goes to cyber defenders first
Google DeepMind has announced Gemini 4 Carbon, its new frontier model, just two weeks after Gemini 4 Argon. It ranks first on version 5.0 of the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with a score of 59, and Google is leaning hard on security: 88.2% on SEC-bench Pro for finding vulnerabilities, 54.8% on ExploitGym and 71.0% on CWE-bench for patching. The rollout is deliberately staged. A subset of cyber defenders get it this week, trusted partners follow through Google's Fairwind Program, and developers and consumers wait until guardrails are tuned. Google says it is taking part in the US government's voluntary pre-release testing. Pricing matches Argon at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, so when it does open up, top-tier capability arrives at mid-tier cost. Google: Introducing Gemini 4 Carbon
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