{"id":830335,"date":"2026-11-10T18:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T18:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/830335\/"},"modified":"2026-11-10T18:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T18:30:09","slug":"google-releases-gemini-4-carbon-with-agent-swarm-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/830335\/","title":{"rendered":"Google releases Gemini 4 Carbon with agent \u2018swarm\u2019 feature"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google is rolling out<\/a> its latest AI model, Gemini 4 Carbon, to the general public after releasing it to a select group<\/a> of \u201ccybersecurity defenders\u201d two weeks ago. Google claims Carbon is its \u201cstrongest model\u201d yet, and capable of competing with the very best systems from Anthropic and OpenAI.<\/p>\n

Google says Gemini 4 Carbon \u201cpushes the frontier even further\u201d than Argon, referring to the company\u2019s other frontier model that launched only last month<\/a>. The company said Argon will likely remain \u201cthe ideal choice for the majority of software engineering and knowledge work,\u201d but that Carbon is \u201cbuilt for tasks that test the limits of a model\u2019s intelligence,\u201d such as complex, multi-step coding and open-ended scientific research.<\/p>\n

To highlight Carbon\u2019s utility for long-horizon work involving AI agents, Google said it is also previewing a \u201cswarm\u201d feature on its agentic development platform Antigravity, which will let users turn a single prompt \u201cinto a coordinated team of agents.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carbon is rolling out today via the Gemini API in Google AI Studio and Gemini for business for all paying developers and enterprises, Google said<\/a> in a blog post. It will also be available to all Google AI Ultra subscribers in the Gemini app, the AI Mode in Search, and on Antigravity. It is not clear when \u2014 or if \u2014 Carbon will be available to lower tier subscribers or free users.<\/p>\n

As with the launch of Argon, Google is pricing Carbon very competitively. The model is launching with an introductory price of $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, around a fifth the cost<\/a> of OpenAI\u2019s GPT-6 Astra and a quarter the cost of Anthropic\u2019s Fable 5.2 model, which launched yesterday<\/a>. Even after those costs double at the end November \u2014 when the introductory period of lower prices finishes \u2014 Carbon will still be significantly cheaper than frontier rivals on a per-token basis, though this doesn\u2019t necessarily translate to lower costs as models can use different numbers of tokens for the same tasks.<\/p>\n

Benchmarks cited by Google when it first announced<\/a> Carbon suggest the model is one of the most powerful on the market across most metrics, behind Fable 5.2. It should be noted that companies can and do cherry-pick benchmark results to show their tools in the best possible light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google is rolling out its latest AI model, Gemini 4 Carbon, to the general public after releasing it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":830336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[554,59,844,50,227,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-830335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ai","tag-gb","tag-google","tag-news","tag-tech","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=830335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/830336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}