Google releases Gemini 4 Carbon and Genie 4 in the same week
Gemini 4 Carbon ranks first on version 5.0 of the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, two weeks after Argon. Genie 4 generates interactive worlds with sound in real time.
Source published · In the Weekly Review of 1 November 2026
Filed under Large language models, AI industry
Two weeks after Argon, Google announced Gemini 4 Carbon on 28 October, with gains in coding, agentic tasks and defensive cybersecurity. Google said Carbon ranks first on version 5.0 of the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, with a score of 59, and that in internal testing it makes about half as many unsupported claims as Argon.
On 27 October Google DeepMind announced Genie 4, a world model that generates interactive simulations in real time, with music, ambient sound and dialogue produced together with the world. Mistral released Mistral Large 4, a 1-trillion-parameter multimodal model with open weights, which it says leads open-weight models in coding and defensive security.