Google unveils frontier model Gemini 4 Carbon, focused on cybersecurity and long-horizon tasks, initially for select cyber defenders
Google DeepMind released Gemini 4 Carbon on Oct 28, saying it ranks first on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0 at 59 and scores 88.2% on SEC-bench Pro, 54.8% on ExploitGym and 71.0% on CWE-bench (vendor figures). A subset of cyber defenders gets access this week, with developers and consumers to follow; launch pricing is $2/$10 per million input/output tokens.
Why it matters
About four weeks after announcing Gemini 4 Argon (Sep 30; generally available Oct 13), Google is leading its new flagship with vulnerability finding, exploit validation and patching, again rolling out to restricted users first.
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Google DeepMindOfficial · BlogGemini 4 Carbon: our next frontier modelView original · - @GoogleAIOfficial · XAnnouncing Gemini 4 Carbon, our strongest model with state-of-the-art cybersecurity and long horizon capabilities.
Carbon represents a step up across most benchmarks, delivering strong frontier performance in autonomous coding and cyber defense.
We’re first making Carbon available to a subset of trusted cyber defenders in our Fairwind program. We’ll expand access as soon as possible.View original ·
9to5GoogleMediaGoogle announces Gemini 4 Carbon with ‘significant gains across coding and agentic tasks’View original ·
- @demishassabisX⚡Iterating at lightning speed! Gemini 4 Carbon is SOTA across key benchmarks and combines frontier capabilities with deep safety & security research.View original ·
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