谷歌推出Gemini 4 Argon仅两周后，便宣布推出性能更出色的新版本，且至少在一段时间内售价不变。谷歌DeepMind高级副总裁兼谷歌首席AI架构师科拉伊·卡夫库切奥卢表示，Gemini 4 Carbon是该公司迄今最强大的模型，尤其在网络安全和长时间运行的任务方面表现突出。“Carbon”这个名称颇具讽刺意味，因为这家“巧克力工厂”正规划一个无二氧化碳的未来。
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.
考虑到谷歌在地图命名方面的政治谨慎，Gemini 4 Americium或许更能体现管理层的世界观。Gemini 4 Silicon则是另一个错失的机会——其化学符号Si，是对“超级智能”的一个点头之意。Gemini 4 Carbon最初定价为每百万输入代币2美元、每百万输出代币10美元，在不确定的推广期内与前代Argon售价相同。推广期结束后，谷歌将把价格上调至每百万输入代币4美元、每百万输出代币20美元。
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.
这与Anthropic的Claude Opus 5.5相同，谷歌显然将其视为Carbon的竞争对手。上个月，在其DeepMind AI子公司发生领导层变动后，谷歌的竞争能力看起来不那么确定。但Carbon已取得令人印象深刻的基准测试分数，在SEC-bench Pro、ExploitGym和CWE-bench中领先，并在WebDev Arena中排名第四，落后于Opus 5.5、GPT-6.1 Astra和Sonnet 5.5。
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, taking the lead in SEC-bench Pro, ExploitGym, and CWE-bench, while landing at fourth place on WebDev Arena, behind Opus 5.5, GPT-6.1 Astra, and Sonnet 5.5.
Carbon目前在Arena.ai的最佳整体代理排行榜上排名第二，落后于Opus 5.5。模型评级机构Artificial Analysis表示，谷歌的新模型位居其新制定的Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5榜首，并在其Coding Agent Index上仅次于Claude Code Opus 5.5，排名第二。卡夫库切奥卢强调了Carbon的网络安全能力，该能力本周将向一组未指明的网络安全防御者开放，并最终通过该公司的Fairwind准入计划向更多用户开放。
Carbon currently ranks second, behind Opus 5.5, in Arena.ai's leaderboard for Best Overall Agent. Model ratings biz Artificial Analysis says Google's new model tops its newly formulated Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5 and comes in second to Claude Code Opus 5.5 on its Coding Agent Index. Kavukcuoglu emphasized Carbon's cybersecurity capabilities, which will be available this week to an unspecified set of cybersecurity defenders and more eventually through the company's Fairwind access program.
“在内部基准测试中，Carbon 在生成安全代码的成功率方面比 Argon 提升了 2 倍以上，”他写道。“另一个例子是，Chrome 团队报告称，在生成高质量补丁时，Carbon 的表现比另一家实验室的大型前沿模型好 10 倍以上。”
"On internal benchmarks, Carbon achieves more than 2x uplift in success rate for generating secure code over Argon," he wrote. "As another example, the Chrome team has reported that Carbon performed more than 10x better than another lab's large frontier model when generating high quality patches."
“Gemini 4 Argon 和 Carbon 现在正引领前沿，”Google 和 Alphabet 首席执行官 Sundar Pichai 在随 Alphabet 2026 年第三季度财报发布的声明 [PDF] 中表示。“总体而言，我们的第一方模型 API 现在每分钟处理近 320 亿个 token，是一年前处理量的 4 倍以上。”
"Gemini 4 Argon and Carbon are now leading at the frontier," said Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, in a statement [PDF] accompanying Alphabet's Q3 2026 earnings. "Overall, our first-party model APIs are now processing nearly 32 billion tokens per minute, more than four times what we processed a year ago."
虽然 Google 可能希望在模型性能和使用量方面超越 Anthropic 和 OpenAI，但它在营收方面已经领先。Emarketer 首席分析师 Nate Elliott 在声明中对 The 指出，凭借公司强劲的第三季度财报，“Google 以一种狡黠的方式向纯 AI 公司谈论营收的方式致敬，吹嘘其半万亿美元的营收运行率——几乎是 OpenAI 或 Anthropic 的 10 倍。”
While Google may hope to surpass Anthropic and OpenAI in terms of model performance and usage, it's already ahead in revenue. Pointing to the company's strong Q3 earnings, Emarketer principal analyst Nate Elliott in a statement told The, "In a sly nod to the way AI-only companies talk about their revenue, Google bragged about its half-trillion dollar run rate – almost ten times more than either OpenAI or Anthropic."
Google 将于本周向选定的网络安全防御者发布 Carbon。公司的目标是“尽快”让该 AI 模型更广泛地可用。®
Google will release Carbon this week to select cybersecurity defenders. The company aims to make the AI model more broadly available "as soon as possible." ®