Google releases Gemini 4 Carbon first to a subset of cyber defenders

Google announced Gemini 4 Carbon, its next frontier model, on Oct. 28 and said it will make the model available starting this week to a subset of cyber defenders.1

Google said it is taking a deliberate approach to rollout, is engaged in the U.S. government's voluntary process for pre-release model testing, and is gathering feedback and iterating on guardrails before wider release.1 Access will expand gradually to additional trusted partners through the Fairwind Program, which Google DeepMind describes as giving high-priority defenders such as governments, healthcare providers and telecommunications services early access to advanced models.12

Google said Carbon, evaluated without guardrails, scored 88.2% on SEC-bench Pro for finding vulnerabilities, 54.8% on ExploitGym for exploitation and 71.0% on Collinear's CWE-bench for patching.1

Google said it will release Carbon to developers, businesses and consumers through its product surfaces "as soon as possible" and did not give a date.1

Google said Carbon will launch at the same introductory price as Gemini 4 Argon, $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, with cached input tokens priced at 95% off the input token price.1

Google said its teams have seen Carbon run for days on multi-step engineering tasks, and that Argon was launched two weeks before Carbon. The benchmark results are Google's own reporting, and the post did not name an independent verifier for them.1