Gemini 4 Pro / Flash: benchmarks, hands-on tests and leaks

A demo claims Gemini 4 Carbon produces strong portraits and SVGs with no reference images, relying only on its multimodal world knowledge.

A post lists Anthropic Fable 5.5, Google Gemini 4 Carbon and OpenAI GPT-6.1 Astra, joking that users await all three like an AI Avengers reunion.

A video compares SVG renderings of Rick Sanchez generated by Fable 5.5 and Gemini 4 Carbon from the same prompt.

A developer says repeated Arena attempts finally returned output from Gemini 4 Carbon under the name gemini-4-argon, calling it impressive.

A user spotted two versions in the Gemini 4 Argon routing and suspects Gemini 4 Carbon has entered gray-release testing.

A user shares a video of Gemini 4 Carbon in Arena producing a photorealistic 3D visualization of a minimalist luxury kitchen in morning light.

Users report Jio accounts can access Gemini 4 Argon, and the poster suspects Google is banning accounts over it.

A roundup of 10 things users built with Gemini 4 Argon in its first week, from 3D worlds and interactive machines to physics simulations and games.

A developer infers from the Sundar Pichai interview that Google's Flash iteration learnings were applied to the near-ready Argon checkpoint.

A reply claims Google will not release a Gemini 4 Carbon model and will ship Gemini 4 Flash instead, an unverified rumor.

NovaXCode jokes that Anthropic waits for OpenAI's Astra 6.1 and OpenAI waits for Anthropic's Fable 5.5, while Google waits for both before launching Gemini 4 Carbon.

A video compares Gemini 4 Carbon and Kimi K3.1 on 3D generation, saying both already compete with Opus 5.5 Medium and are fast.