Google Announces Gemini 4 Carbon With Restricted Access and Top Artificial Analysis Ranking

Josh Woodward highlights the pace of Gemini releases and positive internal sentiment. 2 weeks ago: Gemini 4 Argon Today: Gemini 4 Carbon Quoting Sundar Pichai, he says Carbon will reach cyber defenders first, followed by wider availability. Pichai reports a score of 59 and #1 ranking on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0, improvements in long-horizon tasks over Argon, and strengthened frontier safeguards. https://twitter.com/sundarpichai/status/2115489219804352921

Gdmi whenever I want to try a Gemini model it’s not publicly available. Don’t bother announcing your scores if we can’t use it. https://t.co/jfbUbrQXNJ

I honestly don’t know how to try Gemini in the agentic era, maybe I finally need to fix that. Pretty wild they just have been out of it since December 2025 but look maybe back. https://t.co/sjord9cPwV In a quoted post, @sundarpichai says Google is introducing Gemini 4 Carbon, its next frontier model, and that it ranks #1 on the recently updated v5.0 of @ArtificialAnlys. Nathan Lambert reacts that Gemini may be back.

Artificial Analysis ranks Google’s Gemini 4 Carbon No. 1 on its Intelligence Index v5, with a score of 59 and the top score in 4 of 9 evaluations. In a coding-agent comparison using Antigravity CLI, it scores 59, behind Claude Opus 5.5 at 62. Gemini 4 Carbon is rolling out to selected users and is not yet publicly available; Google is offering a 50% launch discount with no confirmed end date.

Google announces Gemini 4 Carbon as its strongest model, with state-of-the-art cybersecurity and long-horizon capabilities. Google says Carbon improves across most benchmarks, delivering strong frontier performance in autonomous coding and cyber defense. Carbon is initially available to a subset of trusted cyber defenders in Google’s Fairwind program, with access to expand as soon as possible.

Demis Hassabis says Gemini 4 Carbon is SOTA across key benchmarks and combines frontier capabilities with deep safety and security research. https://t.co/TC8Y8ziPOI

Gemini 4 Carbon is Google DeepMind’s next frontier model. Google DeepMind says it is state-of-the-art across cybersecurity and long-horizon capabilities.

Introducing Gemini 4 Carbon, which Logan Kilpatrick calls a big jump over Argon, released just 2 weeks ago. Kilpatrick says Gemini 4 Carbon is SOTA on cyber and long horizon tasks, ranks #1 on Artificial Analysis V5, significantly improves usability in domains like coding, and is more aligned. https://t.co/Ikk9YedjCQ

Sundar Pichai introduces Gemini 4 Carbon, Google’s next frontier model, following Argon’s release two weeks ago. Carbon ranks #1 on 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. Pichai reports significant improvements in long-horizon tasks compared with Argon and strengthened frontier safeguards. Some trusted cyber defenders will get access starting this week, followed by more partners through the Fairwind Program ahead of wider availability soon.

Google DeepMind announced Gemini 4 Carbon, reporting a score of 59 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0 and cybersecurity benchmark results of 88.2% on SEC-bench Pro, 54.8% on ExploitGym, and 71.0% on CWE-bench, evaluated without guardrails. Access begins this week for a subset of cyber defenders and will expand through the Fairwind Program before broader availability. Introductory pricing will match Argon at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, with cached input tokens discounted 95%.