Google releases Gemini 4 Carbon with agent ‘swarm’ feature

It ‘pushes the frontier even further’ than its last release, Argon.

It ‘pushes the frontier even further’ than its last release, Argon.

by Robert HartNov 10, 2026, 4:00 PM UTCImage: GoogleRobert Hart is a London-based reporter at The Verge covering all things AI and a Senior Tarbell Fellow. Previously, he wrote about health, science and tech for Forbes.

Google is rolling out its latest AI model, Gemini 4 Carbon, to the general public after releasing it to a select group of “cybersecurity defenders” two weeks ago. Google claims Carbon is its “strongest model” yet, and capable of competing with the very best systems from Anthropic and OpenAI.