Written Off Weeks Ago, Google Ships Dozens of Gemini and Cloud AI Updates
samcharrington · x · 2026-11-12
Sam Charrington's recap thread: weeks after everyone wrote Google out of the AI race, it shipped dozens of announcements across Gemini and Google Cloud. Highlights: Gemini 4 drops Pro/Flash for element names (Argon as efficient default, Carbon for deeper thinking at a claimed 2x lower cost per task than the next-best external model); Carbon + /swarm in Antigravity points to big-model-thinking, light-models-working architecture; Gemini Agent spans Workspace, mobile, desktop, and Slack; Google Cloud now hosts Gemini, Claude, and GPT — the only hyperscaler with all three.
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