Demis Hassabis announces Gemini 4 Carbon: SOTA across key benchmarks
demishassabis · x · 2026-10-29
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis officially announced Gemini 4 Carbon, claiming SOTA across key benchmarks and combining frontier capabilities with deep safety & security research.
Official evals show it ranking first on most of 16 benchmarks: AA Index v5.0 (59), SWE-sweep (9.6%), AutomationBench (53.9%), long-context GraphWalks (96.2%), SEC-bench Pro (88.2%) — ahead of GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5. It is rolling out first to cyber defenders before wider availability.
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