In Google's October 2026 launch comparison, Gemini 4 Carbon had the top score on 15 of 17 benchmarks

Google DeepMind's frontier AI model, released on October 28, 2026, two weeks after Gemini 4 Argon's wide rollout, first only to selected cybersecurity defenders through Google's Fairwind Program; it ranked first on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5 with a score of 59.