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Gemini 4 Carbon

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6
FIRST SEEN
Oct 28, 2026
LAST SEEN
Oct 29, 2026

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Gemini 4 Carbon is a frontier AI model from Google, which describes it as its strongest model with state-of-the-art cybersecurity and long horizon capabilities.[1][2] Google announced the model on October 28, 2026, citing significant gains in coding, agentic tasks and cybersecurity, according to The Verge.[3] The announcement highlighted that Carbon ranked first on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (v5.0), ahead of Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra.[3][2]

Access is initially limited: Google is rolling out the model first to vetted cyber defenders through its Fairwind Program.[4][5] SecurityWeek reported that Gemini 4 Carbon scored 88.2% on SEC-bench Pro.[4] According to VentureBeat, pricing for Fairwind users is $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, rising later to $4 and $20.[6]

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  • Google Touts Powerful Cybersecurity Capabilities in Gemini 4 Carbon Model Oct 29, 2026
  • [AINews] Gemini 4 Carbon tops leaderboards, launches for cyber defenders Oct 29, 2026
  • Google is rolling out Gemini 4 Carbon to selected cybersecurity defenders through Fairwind at $2/1M input and $10/1M output tokens, rising to $4 and $20 later (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat) Oct 28, 2026
  • Google launches Gemini 4 Carbon with a ‘significant leap’ in cybersecurity Oct 28, 2026
  • Google unveils Gemini 4 Carbon, its "strongest model with state-of-the-art cybersecurity" capabilities, ranked #1 on Artificial Analysis' new Intelligence Index (Koray Kavukcuoglu/Google) Oct 28, 2026
  • Gemini 4 Carbon: our next frontier model Oct 28, 2026
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