Google has released the frontier model Gemini 4 Carbon

Google has released a new frontier model, Gemini 4 Carbon, optimized for complex tasks. The release follows the appearance of other versions of the family in the feed, as well as two weeks of testing among a limited group of cybersecurity specialists (source).

The new model is designed for work in cybersecurity, scientific research, and multi-step programming. It is available to developers via the standard API and the Google Antigravity environment, featuring an agentic "swarm" capability (source).

The cost of use remains unchanged — the model is offered at the same introductory price as the previous Argon version.

The launch expands the company's ecosystem of current tools for specialized engineering and analytical tasks, and Google claims that Carbon is their "strongest model" yet, capable of competing with leading systems from OpenAI and Anthropic (source).