Early access user: Gemini Carbon at frontier, next Google model to rival Fable 5.2
iruletheworldmo · x · 2026-11-11
An early access user of both Gemini Argon and Carbon says Google's progress is striking: the Gemini team is highly responsive, shipping fixes within hours of feedback.
Takeaways:
- Carbon excels at writing and knowledge work, can easily navigate YouTube
- Now at the frontier alongside ChatGPT and Claude
- The most notable signal is the very short gap between Argon and Carbon
- Expects the next Gemini model soon as a contender to Fable 5.2, with more models coming
- Google's earlier reshuffle is clearly paying off
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