Two theories on why Google shipped Gemini 4 Carbon now
Angaisb_ · x · 2026-10-29
The author offers two possible explanations for Google announcing Gemini 4 Carbon now: either Google couldn't keep up and knew Carbon would look bad in weeks once OpenAI and Anthropic ship their new SOTA models, or it had caught up and planned the release but internal bureaucracy slowed things down.
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