By The Hacker News
Publication Date: 2026-10-29 13:42:00
Google on Wednesday took the wraps off Gemini 4 Carbon, its latest frontier model with state-of-the-art cybersecurity and long-horizon capabilities.
“It shows significant gains across coding and agentic tasks as well as across key capabilities critical for cybersecurity defense, landing a firm lead in SEC-bench Pro (88.2%) for finding vulnerabilities, ExploitGym (54.8%) for exploitation, and CWE-bench (71.0%) for patching,” Koray Kavukcuoglu, senior vice president of Google DeepMind and chief AI architect at Google, said.
On the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index benchmark, Carbon leads with a score of 59, surpassing Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5.5 (58), OpenAI GPT-6 Astra (57), GPT-6.1 Sol (55).
One of the core focus areas is cybersecurity, where the latest iteration reportedly delivers significant performance improvements across the board, including vulnerability detection, validation, and remediation….
