Google launched GEMINI 4 Carbon, ranked first on the latest AI capability leaderboard, with notable gains in complex programming, long-duration autonomous tasks and cybersecurity. The company reports an 88.2% score for vulnerability discovery, secure-code generation performance over 2x better than the prior generation, a prompt-injection attack success rate reduced to 0%, and alerts for high-severity safety-alignment issues down nearly 80%. Pricing matches the prior generation at $2 per 1M input

Google launched GEMINI 4 Carbon, ranked first on the latest AI capability leaderboard, with notable gains in complex programming, long-duration autonomous tasks and cybersecurity. The company reports an 88.2% score for vulnerability discovery, secure-code generation performance over 2x better than the prior generation, a prompt-injection attack success rate reduced to 0%, and alerts for high-severity safety-alignment issues down nearly 80%. Pricing matches the prior generation at $2 per 1M input tokens and $10 per 1M output tokens; cached input tokens are discounted 95%. Access is initially restricted to selected cybersecurity defenders, with phased expansion planned.