Google Launches Gemini 4 Carbon at $2 per Million Tokens as Cybersecurity Benchmarks Lead
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Updated · The Verge · Oct 28
Google Launches Gemini 4 Carbon at $2 per Million Tokens as Cybersecurity Benchmarks Lead
3 articles · Updated · The Verge · Oct 28
Summary
Google on Wednesday released Gemini 4 Carbon, a new frontier model it says delivers significant gains in coding, agentic work and cyberdefense over Gemini 4 Argon.
Carbon tops the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0 and also ranks No. 1 on SEC-bench Pro and ExploitGym, benchmarks for finding real-world bugs and turning vulnerabilities into exploits.
Google said the model is built for long-running engineering tasks, with internal teams seeing it persist for days, while improving resistance to prompt-injection attacks and cutting unsupported claims by 2x versus Argon.
The launch is initially limited to a select group of cybersecurity defense companies, with broader access planned through Google's Fairwind Program.
Google kept Carbon at Argon's introductory pricing—$2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens—as it pushes to outpace OpenAI and Anthropic on advanced AI performance.