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Google Launches Gemini 4 Carbon With State-Of-The-Art Cybersecurity Capabilities
Cyber Security News·Source published ·1 min read
What happened?
Google has announced Gemini 4 Carbon, its latest AI model built to find software flaws, test whether attackers could exploit them, and produce fixes. Unveiled on October 28, 2026, Carbon builds on Gemini 4 Argon and targets complex security and coding work that can take days. Access will begin with selected cyber defenders, not a public launch. According to Google’s announcement, Carbon combines stronger cybersecurity skills with improved handling of long tasks.
Key details
- Google announced Gemini 4 Carbon, an AI model designed to find software flaws, test exploitability, and produce fixes.
- Carbon scored 88.2% on SEC-bench Pro for vulnerability discovery, 54.8% on ExploitGym for exploitation, and 71.0% on CWE-bench for patching.
- Internal tests show Carbon more than doubled Argon's success rate for generating secure code.
- Chrome team reported over tenfold better performance in producing quality patches compared with an unnamed rival model.
- Carbon achieved 0.0% attack success rate on Gray Swan's Indirect Prompt Injection benchmark, down from Argon's 0.7%.
- High-severity misalignment alerts fell by almost 80% and unsupported claims dropped by roughly half in internal coding environments.
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