Rumor: Google's internal model Carbon to be priced 5x below Astra, coding-strong
bindureddy · x · 2026-10-26
Bindu Reddy claims (unverified) that Argon already beats Sol and that Google's internal model Carbon will be priced 5x lower than Astra while being very strong at coding — meaning Google will soon threaten OpenAI and its model lead will shrink. No official confirmation yet.
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