{"slug": "google-launches-gemini-4-carbon-ai-model-with-cybersecurity-focus", "title": "Google launches Gemini 4 Carbon AI model with cybersecurity focus", "summary": "Google unveiled Gemini 4 Carbon on Wednesday, a frontier AI model the company says delivers state-of-the-art performance on cybersecurity tasks including vulnerability discovery, exploitation and software patching, and generates secure code at more than twice the success rate of Gemini 4 Argon on internal benchmarks. Carbon is available first to a subset of cybersecurity defenders through Google's Fairwind Program while testing of safeguards continues, and is priced at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, matching Gemini 4 Argon's introductory pricing. The launch comes two weeks after Google introduced Gemini 4 Argon as it expands the Gemini family for developers and enterprise customers.", "body_md": "Oct 28 (Reuters) - Alphabet's Google on Wednesday unveiled Gemini 4 Carbon, its latest frontier AI model, stepping up competition with OpenAI and Anthropic as the race to build more capable coding and cybersecurity systems intensifies.\n\nThe launch comes two weeks after Google introduced Gemini 4 Argon, as the company expands its Gemini family of AI models for developers and enterprise customers.\n\nHere are some details:\n\n• The company said the Carbon model delivers state-of-the-art performance across cybersecurity tasks including vulnerability discovery, exploitation, and software patching\n\n• Google said Carbon generates secure code at more than twice the success rate of Gemini 4 Argon on internal benchmarks\n\n• The model is designed to handle complex, long-running engineering and coding tasks\n\n• Carbon is being made available first to a subset of cybersecurity defenders through Google's Fairwind Program as the company continues testing safeguards\n\n• Gemini 4 Carbon will be priced at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, matching Gemini 4 Argon's introductory pricing\n\n(Reporting by Prathik Jayaprakash in Bengaluru)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-launches-gemini-4-carbon-ai-model-with-cybersecurity-focus", "canonical_source": "https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/google-launches-gemini-4-carbon-181234778.html", "published_at": "2026-10-28 18:12:34+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-28 19:12:25.192639+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "ai-safety", "ai-products", "generative-ai"], "entities": ["Google", "Alphabet", "Gemini 4 Carbon", "Gemini 4 Argon", "OpenAI", "Anthropic", "Fairwind Program", "Prathik Jayaprakash"], "also_reported_by": [{"url": "https://explainx.ai/blog/gemini-4-carbon-launch-cyber-defenders-first-59-intelligence-index-pricing-2026?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=blog", "source": "explainx.ai", "title": "Gemini 4 Carbon: Google's Strongest Model Starts With Cyber Defenders", "published_at": "2026-10-28T00:00:00+00:00"}], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-launches-gemini-4-carbon-ai-model-with-cybersecurity-focus", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-launches-gemini-4-carbon-ai-model-with-cybersecurity-focus.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-launches-gemini-4-carbon-ai-model-with-cybersecurity-focus.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-launches-gemini-4-carbon-ai-model-with-cybersecurity-focus.jsonld"}}