Google has officially begun general deployment of its most powerful artificial intelligence model yet, Gemini 4 Carbon, two weeks after its limited release to cybersecurity professionals.
The tech giant claims that Carbon is the "strongest model" capable of competing on equal terms with flagship solutions from Anthropic and OpenAI.
Google has officially begun general deployment of its most powerful artificial intelligence model yet, Gemini 4 Carbon, two weeks after its limited release to cybersecurity professionals.
The tech giant claims that Carbon is the "strongest model" capable of competing on equal terms with flagship solutions from Anthropic and OpenAI.
The Carbon release comes just a month after the company launched another expansion model, Gemini 4 Argon. Google says Argon will remain the go-to choice for most standard software development and analytics tasks.
Instead, Gemini 4 Carbon is designed for tasks that require the ultimate level of AI intelligence:
complex multi-step programming over a long time horizon;
open scientific research;
in-depth cybersecurity analysis and vulnerability scanning.
To demonstrate the capabilities of Carbon when implementing long-term and large-scale projects, Google is launching the announcement of the Swarm feature on its Antigravity development platform, reports The Verge.
This tool allows you to turn a single text prompt into a coordinated group of AI agents that distribute roles among themselves and work as a single team to solve a complex task.
Starting today, Gemini 4 Carbon becomes available:
for developers and companies via the Gemini API in Google AI Studio and the Gemini for Business service;
for private users in the Gemini app for Google AI Ultra subscribers, in AI Mode in Search, and on the Antigravity platform.
The company has not yet specified whether the model will be available to users of basic tariffs and the free version.
As with Argon, Google is entering the market with aggressive dumping. The starting price is $2 for 1 million input tokens and $10 for 1 million output tokens. This is about five times cheaper than OpenAI GPT-6 Astra and four times cheaper than Anthropic’s Fable 5.2 model.
Even after the promotional period ends at the end of November, when prices double ($4 / $20), Carbon will remain significantly more profitable than its competitors on a per-token basis.
Google’s published tests show that Carbon holds the market leading position in most metrics, second only to the latest Fable 5.2. However, experts traditionally urge to take such comparisons with caution, as technology giants often select only the most favorable benchmarks for presentations.
