Ethan Mollick on Gemini 4 Carbon: a very good model that 'thinks differently' than Claude/GPT
emollick · x · 2026-11-11
With early access to Gemini 4 Carbon, Ethan Mollick calls it a very good model improving on Argon, valuable for thinking differently from Claude/GPT with its own strengths and weaknesses. Fun demo: given a video clip, Carbon reproduced the scene in Three.js.
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