Google launches Gemini 4 Carbon with a ‘significant leap’ in cybersecurity
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Google has released its latest frontier model, Gemini 4 Carbon, offering "significant gains" in coding, agentic tasks, and cybersecurity. In <a href="https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/introducing-gemini-4-carbon/">an announcement on Wednesday</a>, Google highlights Carbon's top spot on the <a href="https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/artificial-analysis-intelligence-index">Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (v5.0)</a> benchmark, with Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra trailing behind.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The new Gemini 4 Carbon model offers improvements over Argon, which Google released earlier this month. It's currently only available to a select group of cybersecurity defense companies, but it will eventually expand to other partners <a href="https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/safety-security/fairwind-program/">in its Fairwind Program</a>.</p>
<img src="https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/10/Artificial-Analysis-Intelligence-Index-Score-28-Oct-26.png?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0,0,100,100" alt="" title="" data-has-syndication-rights="1" data-caption="<em>Carbon sits ahead of Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra.</em> | Image: Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index" data-portal-copyright="Image: Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index">
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The company says Carbon reflects the "pace at which we're pus …</p>
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