From The Verge · Robert Hart · · 1m 20s
Google launches Gemini 4 Carbon to take on rivals
Google releases its most powerful AI model yet, claiming it outperforms Anthropic and OpenAI while undercutting their prices.
In brief
Google releases its most powerful AI model yet, claiming it outperforms Anthropic and OpenAI while undercutting their prices. Google released Gemini 4 Carbon to the public, claiming it is its strongest model yet and capable of competing with Anthropic and OpenAI's best systems. Originally reported by The Verge.
Google's new model goes public
Google is rolling out Gemini 4 Carbon to the general public after releasing it to cybersecurity defenders two weeks ago. Google claims Carbon is its strongest model yet.
Carbon beats Argon on hard tasks
Google says Gemini 4 Carbon pushes the frontier even further than Argon, its other frontier model launched last month. Carbon is built for complex multi-step coding and open-ended scientific research.
“pushes the frontier even further”
New swarm feature coordinates agents
Google is previewing a swarm feature on its agentic development platform Antigravity. It lets users turn a single prompt into a coordinated team of agents.
Carbon costs a fifth of rivals
Gemini 4 Carbon launches at two dollars per million input tokens and ten dollars per million output tokens. That is around a fifth the cost of OpenAI's GPT-six Astra.
Google returns to AI leadership race
The release marks a decisive return for Google to the forefront of AI research. For months, frontier development looked like a two-horse race between Anthropic and OpenAI.
The short version
Google released Gemini 4 Carbon to the public, claiming it is its strongest model yet and capable of competing with Anthropic and OpenAI's best systems.
