The company's new frontier model tops Claude Opus 5.5 in several key benchmarks.

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OpenAI and Anthropic's frontier models have been trading blows of late, with each claiming bragging rights in different categories. Now, Google has barged in with its latest Gemini 4 Carbon model, boasting of top benchmark scores in key areas like cybersecurity and coding. "Building on Gemini 4 Argon , which was launched two weeks ago, Carbon illustrates the pace at which we're pushing the frontier forward," the company wrote in a blog post .

The company's benchmarks show Gemini 4 Carbon hitting the highest AA Index v5.0 score (a general AI benchmark) at 59, just ahead of Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra. Google also claims a near sweep across categories including agentic coding, computer use, knowledge work, science and math, and others.…