Google DeepMind releases Gemini 4 Carbon with introductory pricing
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Google DeepMind released Gemini 4 Carbon, a frontier model it positions above Gemini 4 Argon for tasks needing deeper reasoning and more tokens, and made it available to developers, enterprises, scientists and consumers. Paying developers and enterprises can use it via the API in Google AI Studio and Gemini for business at the same introductory price as Argon: $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens. Simon Willison reports that this price is scheduled to double to $4/$20 on December 1st. It is also rolling out to Google AI Ultra subscribers in Google Antigravity, the Gemini app and AI Mode in Search. Google says Carbon ranks first on CursorBench 4.0, Perplexity's WANDR and Zapier's AutomationBench at more than 2X lower cost per task than the next best external model, and that it blocked 99% of attack trajectories in simulated cyberattack testing. Willison tested Carbon in Google's Antigravity IDE, where it generated a Three.js animation of a mech in New York City from OpenStreetMap data. Google also previewed /swarm in Antigravity, which turns a single prompt into a coordinated team of agents. Access to Carbon for cyber is available by applying to the Fairwind Program.
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- Simon WillisonPicksSimon Willison tests Gemini 4 Carbon in Antigravity IDE as Google opens access to all users
Gemini 4 Carbon, announced two weeks ago for a subset of cyber defenders, is now available to everyone at $2/million input and $10/million output, with prices scheduled to double to $4/$20 on December 1st. Simon Willison tested it in Google's Antigravity IDE, generating a Three.js animation of a mech stomping through New York City using OpenStreetMap data, and noted that Google CEO Sundar Pichai highlighted Antigravity's /swarm feature building an open-world 3D game with Blender assets, WebGL shaders and Lyria music.
- Google DeepMindPicksGoogle DeepMind releases Gemini 4 Carbon for agentic coding, cybersecurity and scientific reasoning
Google DeepMind made Gemini 4 Carbon available to developers, enterprises, scientists and consumers, positioning it above Gemini 4 Argon for tasks that need deeper reasoning and more tokens. Carbon ranks #1 on CursorBench 4.0, Perplexity's WANDR and Zapier's AutomationBench at more than 2X lower cost per task than the next best external model, and is priced at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, the same introductory price as Argon. Google also previewed /swarm in Google Antigravity, which turns a single prompt into a coordinated team of agents, and reported that Carbon blocked 99% of attack trajectories in simulated cyberattack testing.
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