Google has released its latest frontier model, Gemini 4 Carbon, offering "significant gains" in coding, agentic tasks, and cybersecurity. In an announcement on Wednesday , Google highlights Carbon's top spot on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (v 5. 0) benchmark, with Claude Opus 5. 5 and GPT-6 Astra trailing behind.
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 in its Fairwind Program . Carbon sits ahead of Claude Opus 5. 5 and GPT-6 Astra. | Image: Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index" data-portal-copyright="Image: Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index">
The company says Carbon reflects the "pace at which we're pus …
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