Gemini 4 Carbon: 15 of 17 Wins, and You Can't Use It

Gemini 4 Carbon, Google's new frontier model, tops 15 of 17 rows in its own benchmark table against Gemini 4 Argon, GPT-6 Astra, Claude Opus 5.5 and Claude Fable 5.1. Three of those wins are by one point or less, it loses FrontierSWE 2 and OSWorld-2.1, and access starts with a subset of cyber defenders. ---- ❤️ SUPPORT THE CHANNEL Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/DIYSmartCode Higgsfield AI — Create AI Videos & Visuals Get 10% OFF here: https://higgsfield.ai?fpr=thomas-dccf7e 🚀 DYNAMOUS AI COMMUNITY Want to learn agentic coding with live daily events and workshops? Check out Dynamous AI: https://dynamous.ai/?code=646a60 Get 10% off here 👉 https://shorturl.smartcode.diy/dynamous_ai_10_percent_discount ⚡ HOSTINGER — RELIABLE HOSTING FOR YOUR PROJECTS (10% OFF) Whether you're shipping a portfolio, a side project, n8n flows, or AI agents — I use Hostinger for fast, affordable VPS + web hosting. Get 10% off here 👉 https://hostinger.com/DIYSMARTCODE n8n: https://n8n.partnerlinks.io/diysmartcode (Affiliate links — costs you nothing, supports the channel.) ---- Chapters 0:00 Gemini 4 Carbon Benchmarks: 15 of 17 Rows in Google's Table 0:28 Who Gets Gemini 4 Carbon (Cyber Defenders, Fairwind Program) 0:52 The Benchmark Table: Carbon vs Argon, GPT-6 Astra, Claude Opus 5.5 1:08 Biggest Leads: GraphWalks 96.2 and Terminal-Bench 4.0 1:33 Thin Wins: AA Intelligence Index 59 vs 58, Vals Index, SWE-sweep 1:57 Where Gemini 4 Carbon Loses: FrontierSWE 2 and OSWorld-2.1 2:23 SEC-bench Pro 88.2%: Finding Vulnerabilities Without Guardrails 2:41 ExploitGym 54.8%: 10 Hours vs 6 Hours per Task 3:10 CWE-bench 71%: Model Plus Coding Agent (Antigravity, Claude Code, Codex) 3:37 Google's Internal Cyber Tests: 2x Secure Code, 10x Chrome Patches 3:54 Safety Numbers: 0.0% Cheating on Terminal-Bench 4.0 4:21 Gray Swan Prompt Injection: 0% Attack Success 4:44 Gemini 4 Carbon Pricing: $2 / $10 Intro, Then $4 / $20 5:17 Should You Wait for Gemini 4 Carbon or Use Argon Now? What you will see in this 6-minute breakdown: → Every number from Google's Gemini 4 Carbon launch post, checked against the published table and charts → The three wins by one point or less (AA Intelligence Index v5.0, Vals Index v2.2, SWE-sweep) and the two losses (FrontierSWE 2 to GPT-6 Astra, OSWorld-2.1 to Claude Opus 5.5) → ExploitGym: Carbon at 10 hours scores 54.8, at 6 hours 53.5, Claude Opus 5.5 at 6 hours 34.5 → CWE-bench: each model ran in its own coding agent (Antigravity, Claude Code, Codex, opencode) → Which safety numbers are external (Gray Swan IPI) and which are Google's internal tests → Gemini 4 Carbon API pricing: $2 input / $10 output per 1M tokens, cached input 95% off, then $4 / $20 after the intro period Gemini 4 Carbon announcement (Google, Oct 28, 2026): https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/introducing-gemini-4-carbon/ Fairwind Program (Google DeepMind): https://deepmind.google/fairwind-program/ Gemini 4 Argon is now available for developers: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/build-with-gemini-4-argon/ Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index: https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/artificial-analysis-intelligence-index CWE-bench leaderboard: https://cwe-bench.com/#leaderboard ExploitGym: https://github.com/sunblaze-ucb/exploitgym Google announced a model most developers can't use yet. Should labs ship first and announce later, or is announcing early the right call? #Gemini4Carbon #Gemini4 #GeminiCarbon #GoogleGemini #Gemini #GoogleDeepMind #GoogleAI #Gemini4Argon #GPT6Astra #ClaudeOpus #ClaudeOpus55 #AIBenchmarks #Cybersecurity #AISecurity #PromptInjection #ExploitGym #SECbench #CWEbench #TerminalBench #AIPricing #LLM #AINews #AICoding