# Google launches Gemini 4 Carbon with a ‘significant leap’ in cybersecurity

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/google-launches-gemini-4-carbon-with-a-significant-leap-in-cybersecurity/
- Published: 2026-10-28T20:42:31+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-28T20:48:12+00:00
- Original publisher: The Verge
- Original article: https://www.theverge.com/tech/1021339/google-gemini-4-carbon-cybersecurity-frontier
- Topics: Americas, Art, Climate, Culture, Cybersecurity, Science, Technology, World

## Key points

- Google has launched Gemini 4 Carbon.
- Selected cybersecurity firms get access first.
- It matches Argon’s introductory pricing.

## Summary

Google has launched Gemini 4 Carbon, its latest frontier model, with claimed improvements in coding, agentic work and cybersecurity. The new development is its restricted initial release to selected cybersecurity defence companies, with wider access planned through Google’s Fairwind Program.

Google says Carbon ranks first on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, SEC-bench Pro and ExploitGym. It is designed to handle longer engineering tasks, resist prompt injection and make half as many unsupported claims as its predecessor, Argon. Introductory pricing matches Argon at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens.

## Coverage

- [The Verge: Google launches Gemini 4 Carbon with a ‘significant leap’ in cybersecurity](https://www.theverge.com/tech/1021339/google-gemini-4-carbon-cybersecurity-frontier)
- [Ars Technica: Google announces Gemini 4 Carbon, its latest frontier AI model that you can't use](https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/10/google-announces-gemini-4-carbon-its-latest-frontier-ai-model-that-you-cant-use/)

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