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Google Expands Gemini 4 Carbon Access to AI Ultra Subscribers
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In Short: Google has rolled out its Gemini 4 Carbon AI model to paying users and AI Ultra subscribers, with plans to extend access to developers and enterprises.
Gemini 4 Carbon Gets Wider Access: What Changes and How to Test It. Steele Entertainment
Google announced the availability of Gemini 4 Carbon on October 28, initially offering it to cybersecurity defenders through its Fairwind Program.
The model is now accessible to paying developers and enterprises through the Gemini API in Google AI Studio and Gemini for Business.
According to Google, the introductory rate for Carbon is $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, with the rate doubling on December 1.
The company is also extending its program for 10,000 scientists, which began with Argon, to cover Carbon.
In the Gemini app, Carbon is reserved for AI Ultra subscribers, while it is available to developers and enterprises through the paid API.
Engadget, Freepressjournal, and Technobaboy report that Carbon is now accessible to more users after its initial release to select cybersecurity defense companies in late October.
Google has not announced a peso price or a local rollout date for AI Ultra, as noted when the company cut free access to Flash-Lite on October 9.
The Verge notes that Google has not said when, or whether, Carbon will reach AI Pro, AI Plus, or free users.
According to 9To5Google, Carbon ranks #1 on the recently updated v5.0 of Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index at 59, with significant gains in coding, agentic tasks, and cybersecurity defense.
The company introduced Gemini 4 Argon on Wednesday as the flagship of its Gemini 4 generation and is releasing it first to a vetted group of cyber defenders, who will be able to use it without cyber guardrails.
In addition, Google is making its in-car AI assistant more personal by letting Gemini draw on information from connected Google apps, including Gmail, Calendar, Maps, Photos, YouTube, and Search.
Personal Intelligence requires users to choose which apps to connect, and Google has plans to roll out Gemini to children under 13 as well.
What this adds
Google's Gemini 4 Carbon model excels in cybersecurity and coding benchmarks, outperforming competitors like Claude and GPT-6 Astra.
Gemini 4 Carbon is now available to developers, enterprises, scientists, and consumers, but within the Gemini app, it is reserved for AI Ultra subscribers.
Background
Gemini 4 Carbon is now available to developers, enterprises, scientists, and consumers, but within the Gemini app, it is reserved for AI Ultra subscribers.
Google's Gemini 4 Carbon model excels in cybersecurity and coding benchmarks, outperforming competitors like Claude and GPT-6 Astra.
What's confirmed
- It is also rolling out to AI Ultra subscribers in the Gemini app, in AI Mode in Search, and on the Google Antigravity development platform.
- The company now says the model is open to paying developers and enterprises through the Gemini API in Google AI Studio and Gemini for business.
- Google is making Gemini 4 Carbon accessible to more users after its initial release to select cybersecurity defense companies in late October.
- Google has made its Gemini 4 Carbon artificial intelligence model broadly available through its consumer products, business services and paid API, following a limited cybersecurity rollout that began on Oct. 28.
- Google has started rolling out Gemini 4 Carbon to the Gemini app, making its most powerful AI model available to consumers for the first time.
What's still developing
- Google says Gemini 4 Argon remains the better pick for most software engineering and knowledge work.
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- According to Google, Carbon is built for jobs that need deeper thinking and longer problem-solving.
- The feature is launching globally in English for AI Pro and Ultra and is expected to roll out gradually to Workspace Business, as well as Enterprise Standard and Plus.
- Now, a new test suggests Google wants Gemini to get work done across your computer itself.
- Android Auto replaced the traditional Google Assistant experience with Gemini back in April as Google began a wider rollout of the change, but in the months that have passed, one thing Android Auto users didn’t have access to was Gemini’s Personal Intelligence feature.
- Googlebook offers high-resolution OLED touchscreens, dedicated keyboards, and precision trackpads with all-day battery life and OS-level Gemini Intelligence.
- According to Artificial Analysis’s Intelligence Index, a composite score the firm uses to rank general model capability, Claude Opus 5.5 sits at 58, Claude Sonnet 5.5 at 56, and both GPT-6 Astra and Gemini 4 Argon land at 53.
- Gemini in Chrome first launched in the United States in January, after which Google extended access to India, Canada and New Zealand in March.
- "try to limit access to inappropriate content, but they’re not perfect."
- This means they’ll be able to use the AI assistant to "ask questions, get homework help, and make up stories." While Google will not use the data of a child with a Family Link account who uses the kid-friendly Gemini to train its AI, the tech giant acknowledged the risks of AI in the email.
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