Gemini 4 Carbon

Google unveiled Gemini 4 Carbon on October 28, 2026, its newest frontier AI model built for cybersecurity and long engineering tasks, with introductory pricing of $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens. Full story in slides above — Sources: Reuters, SiliconANGLE, ET CISO, October 28-29, 2026.

Google unveiled Gemini 4 Carbon on Wednesday, its second flagship AI model in two weeks, and the company says it’s the best-performing model it has ever built. Independent benchmark tracker Artificial Analysis agrees, at least for now: Carbon scored 59 on its Intelligence Index v5.0, putting it ahead of Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5.5 at 58 and OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra at 57. You can’t use it yet. That’s the catch, and it’s deliberate. Like its predecessor Gemini 4 Argon, Carbon is going first to a small group of vetted cybersecurity defenders through Google’s Fairwind Program, plus the US government through a voluntary pre-release testing process. Everyone else — developers, businesses, and regular users — will have to wait for a wider rollout Google hasn’t dated. ...