Google announces Gemini 4 Carbon, but gives it first only to selected cyber defenders
Google's post has the benchmark claims and the staged rollout plan; the Reuters report via Khaleej Times sums up the competitive picture.
Google announced Gemini 4 Carbon on Oct. 28, two weeks after Gemini 4 Argon, calling it its strongest model, with state-of-the-art cybersecurity and long-horizon capabilities. Google says Carbon ranks first on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0 with a score of 59, and leads on SEC-bench Pro (88.2%) for finding vulnerabilities, ExploitGym (54.8%) for exploitation and CWE-bench (71.0%) for patching. It says internal teams have seen Carbon run for days on complex engineering tasks.
Carbon is not generally available. Google says it is taking part in the U.S. government's voluntary pre-release testing process and, starting this week, is giving access to a subset of cyber defenders, then more trusted partners through its Fairwind Program, before developers, businesses and consumers get it. It will launch at Argon's introductory price of $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output. On safety, Google says Carbon cut successful cheating on Terminal-Bench 4.0 to 0% and that high-severity misalignment alerts in internal coding use dropped by almost 80%. Benchmark figures are Google's own.
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Exploit (computer security)
After exploring Introducing Gemini 4 Carbon, for what the 'exploitation' benchmarks measure, see Exploit (computer security).
Explains what an exploit is: a method or code that takes advantage of a vulnerability in software, hardware or networks to bypass security.
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