Gemini 4 Carbon is now open to all, with frontier performance and a price that will double on December 1st.

GEMINI 4 CARBON IS LIVE Google opened access to its strongest model today. Carbon leads on CursorBench 4.0, WANDR, and AutomationBench, and it costs half as much per task as the next best external model at launch. Pricing is $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens until November 30. On December 1, it jumps to $4 and $20. AGENTIC WORKFLOWS Carbon is built for long-horizon agentic tasks: complex coding, debugging, scientific research. Google is previewing /swarm in Antigravity, turning a single prompt into a coordinated team of agents with real-time tracking. Developers can assign Carbon to deep reasoning roles while pairing it with lighter models for parallel work. NORDIC IMPACT This is the first practical path most developers have to Carbon. The window to test at the lower price is 20 days. After that, the cost matches Opus 5.5. The Nordics must decide now whether to validate Carbon for critical workflows before the price rise. NVIDIA MOVES At KubeCon, NVIDIA donated OpenShell to CNCF. OpenShell secures and governs autonomous agents on Kubernetes, with deterministic controls and extensible architecture. NVIDIA also contributed to Agent Substrate, a Google-led framework for scaling agent workloads on Kubernetes. These are open source building blocks for AI factories. POLL The network must choose.

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