ai and ml

Undercutting Claude on price ahead of Anthropic's IPO

Just two weeks after launching Gemini 4 Argon, Google has announced a better-performing version of the model that it will sell for the same price, at least temporarily.

Koray Kavukcuoglu, SVP at Google DeepMind and chief AI architect at Google, said Gemini 4 Carbon represents the company's strongest model yet, particularly in terms of cybersecurity and long-running tasks.

There's some irony in the name "Carbon", given the Chocolate Factory plans a carbon-dioxide-free future . Given Google's political timidity when it comes to names on maps , Gemini 4 Americium might be more representative of management's worldview. Gemini 4 Silicon is another missed opportunity — the chemical symbol is Si, a bobbleheaded nod to "Super Intelligence."

Priced initially at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, Gemini 4 Carbon sells for the same amount as its predecessor Argon during an indeterminate introductory period.…