Hands-on: Gemini 4 Carbon nearly matches Opus on design, "Google is so back"
altryne · x · 2026-11-04
Peter Gostev tested Gemini 4 Carbon on Arena: still not as good as Opus for 3D and web design, but really close. His take: if Google had skipped Argon and shipped Carbon directly, everyone would be saying "Google is back." Even if you'd been in a coma for two weeks, this slaps. altryne praised the work from Gostev and the Google DeepMind team.
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