Google launches Gemini 4 Carbon with a ‘significant leap’ in cybersecurity - The Verge

Google has released Gemini 4 Carbon, its latest frontier model, The Verge reported, in a release the outlet headlined as bringing a 'significant leap' in cybersecurity. The company said the model offers 'significant gains' in coding, agentic tasks and cybersecurity. Gemini 4 Carbon is currently available only to a select group of cybersecurity defense companies, rather than to the public or to general developers.

Google said Carbon holds the number one spot on two benchmarks, SEC-bench Pro and ExploitGym. The company also said its internal teams have seen the model run for days to persist through dead ends on complex, multi-step engineering tasks. Google said access will eventually expand to other partners in what it calls the Fairwind Program.

The Verge reported that the release represents a 'significant leap' in cybersecurity capability. According to the article, Google is distributing the model first to cybersecurity defense companies, with other partners in the Fairwind Program to follow at an unspecified later point. The article did not state a public release date, a price, or how many companies are in the initial group, and it did not describe how SEC-bench Pro or ExploitGym are constructed or who runs them. Google's claim to the top spot on both benchmarks was attributed to the company rather than independently verified in the article. The piece also did not say what the restrictions on the defense companies' use of the model are.