Google releases Gemini 4 Carbon to public with new agent swarm feature

Google is now making its newest AI model, Gemini 4 Carbon, available to the general public after first offering it to a select group of cybersecurity defenders two weeks earlier. The company describes Carbon as its most capable model to date and says it can compete with top systems from Anthropic and OpenAI. Google positions Carbon as an advance beyond Argon, its other frontier model launched last month, which it says will remain the better choice for most software engineering and knowledge work. Carbon is aimed at demanding tasks that push the limits of a model's intelligence, and the release includes an agent swarm feature.