Google DeepMind unveils Gemini 4 Carbon preview

Koray Kavukcuoglu, head of Google DeepMind, announced a preview of Gemini 4 Carbon, the lab's next frontier model, on October 29, 2026. The model features state-of-the-art long-horizon coding capabilities and delivers strong performance across the cybersecurity defense lifecycle, including detection, validation, and remediation. It also ranks first overall on the recently updated v5.0 Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with a score of 59.

Starting the week of October 29, 2026, Gemini 4 Carbon is being rolled out to a subset of cyber defenders through the Fairwind Program, with broader access planned soon. The release comes just two weeks after the rollout of Gemini 4 Argon. Google DeepMind is Google's artificial intelligence research organization.