Google DeepMind announces Gemini 4 Carbon, frontier model focused on cybersecurity and long-horizon tasks
Google DeepMind announced Gemini 4 Carbon, a new 'frontier' model in the Gemini 4 family designed for long-horizon agentic workflows and improved cybersecurity capabilities. DeepMind reports Carbon ranks #1 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0 (59) and posts leading benchmark results (SEC-bench Pro 88.2%, ExploitGym 54.8%, CWE-bench 71.0%), will be rolled out first to a subset of cyber defenders via its Fairwind Program while participating in U.S. government voluntary pre-release testing, and is priced at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens (cached input tokens at a 95% discount).