Gemini 4 Carbon spotted and usable on Arena
A new Gemini 4 checkpoint called Carbon is already available on Arena, with polished outputs and impressive speed, though Google took about eight months from Gemini 3.1 Pro to Argon.
🥳 Gemini 4 Carbon is already available on Arena! A new Gemini 4 checkpoint was spotted just a few hours ago, and I'm really liking what I've seen so far. There's something about the premium quality of its results that makes it stand out from other models, everything looks so polished and the speed is impressive too. I really like the direction Google is taking with these new models! What's interesting is that it took Google around 8 months to go from Gemini 3.1 Pro to Gemini 4 Argon, which feels like a long time considering how quickly the competition is moving. If Google can adapt to this new pace and start releasing improved models every 1 to 2 months, I think they could become a much stronger competitor to OpenAI and Anthropic, which currently have a much larger share of the market, I'd love to see Google keep improving at this pace because more competition means better models for all of us!