Gemini 4 Carbon goes GA after two-week test, beats Fable 5.2 on some benchmarks at under half the cost
The Decoder · rss · 2026-11-11
Google has made Gemini 4 Carbon generally available after just a two-week testing phase — what The Decoder calls the fastest model cycle yet. The model ranks first on several benchmarks, in some cases ahead of Anthropic's new Fable 5.2, at less than half the per-task cost. Google is also previewing "/swarm," a feature where coordinated agent teams split up complex tasks in real time.
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