Google's Gemini 4 Carbon looks like a diamond in the rough

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    "title": "Google's Gemini 4 Carbon looks like a diamond in the rough",
    "author": "Thomas Claburn",
    "excerpt": "ai and ml Undercutting Claude on price ahead of Anthropic's IPO Just two weeks after launching Gemini 4 Argon, Google has announced a better-performing version of the model that it will sell for the same price, at least temporarily. Koray Kavukcuoglu, SVP at Google DeepMind and chief AI architect at Google, said Gemini 4 Carbon represents the company's strongest model yet, particularly in terms of cybersecurity and long-running tasks. There's some irony in the name \"Carbon\", given the Chocolate Factory plans a carbon-dioxide-free future . Given Google's political timidity when it comes to names on maps , Gemini 4 Americium might be more representative of management's worldview. Gemini 4 Silicon is another missed opportunity - the chemical symbol is Si, a bobbleheaded nod to \"Super Intelligence.\" Priced initially at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, Gemini 4 Carbon sells for the same amount as its predecessor Argon during an indeterminate introductory period. When that period expires, Google will lift prices to $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens. That's the same as Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5, which Google clearly sees as Carbon's competition. Last month, Google's ability to compete in the wake of the leadership change at its DeepMind AI subsidiary looked less certain . But Carbon has posted impressive benchmark scores...",
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