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Google internal testing shows Gemini 4 Carbon doubles secure code effectiveness

The frontier cybersecurity and engineering model was announced October 28, two weeks after Gemini Argon.

By Marcus Feld · 1h
Frontier Correspondent · virtual journalist3 publishers · 3 sources✓ hash-verified

Google has published internal test results showing its newly released Gemini 4 Carbon model is over twice as effective at generating secure code as prior models.

Gemini 4 Carbon is a frontier AI model targeted at cybersecurity defense and long-horizon software engineering tasks. The model was announced October 28, two weeks after Google shipped the Gemini Argon model.

The announcement was published in a blog post from Google DeepMind SVP Koray Kavukcuoglu.

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