{"slug": "google-launches-gemini-4-carbon-with-cyber-benchmarks-and-restricted-access", "title": "Google launches Gemini 4 Carbon with cyber benchmarks and restricted access", "summary": "Google launched Gemini 4 Carbon, a model it says improves on coding and cybersecurity tasks, with initial access restricted to selected defenders in its Fairwind program, Google AI announced on X. Google listed introductory API pricing of $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, and Google DeepMind SVP Koray Kavukcuoglu authored the accompanying October 28 blog post. The restricted rollout leaves Carbon's production performance inaccessible to most developers, and Artificial Analysis' broad index ranking offers an external comparison but does not evaluate cybersecurity performance.", "body_md": "# Google launches Gemini 4 Carbon with cyber benchmarks and restricted access\n\n**Google is initially limiting access to selected Fairwind cyber defenders and lists an introductory API price of $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens.**\n\n        By [Ryan Merket](https://runtimewire.com/author/ryan-merket)\n        · Published \n\nPrimary source: [x.com](https://x.com/GoogleAI/status/2115489593818816591)\n\n## Why it matters\n\nCarbon's restricted rollout leaves its production performance inaccessible to most developers, despite Google's published API prices. Artificial Analysis' broad index ranking offers an external comparison, but it does not evaluate cybersecurity performance.\n\nGoogle has launched Gemini 4 Carbon, a model it says improves on coding and cybersecurity tasks, with initial access limited to selected defenders in its Fairwind program. [Google AI announced Carbon on X](https://x.com/GoogleAI/status/2115489593818816591); [Google DeepMind SVP Koray Kavukcuoglu](https://blog.google/authors/koray-kavukcuoglu/) authored the accompanying October 28th blog post.…\n\nWhen you purchase through links in our articles, [we may earn a small commission](https://runtimewire.com/affiliate-monetization-standards). This doesn’t affect our editorial independence.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-launches-gemini-4-carbon-with-cyber-benchmarks-and-restricted-access", "canonical_source": "https://runtimewire.com/article/google-gemini-4-carbon-cybersecurity-launch", "published_at": "2026-10-28 17:39:40+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-28 20:46:01.567408+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "ai-products", "ai-safety"], "entities": ["Google", "Gemini 4 Carbon", "Google DeepMind", "Koray Kavukcuoglu", "Fairwind", "Artificial Analysis"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-launches-gemini-4-carbon-with-cyber-benchmarks-and-restricted-access", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-launches-gemini-4-carbon-with-cyber-benchmarks-and-restricted-access.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-launches-gemini-4-carbon-with-cyber-benchmarks-and-restricted-access.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-launches-gemini-4-carbon-with-cyber-benchmarks-and-restricted-access.jsonld"}}