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Google says Carbon is "built for tasks that test the limits of a model's intelligence like complex, multi-step coding and debugging and open-ended scientific research and discovery — using more tokens than Argon to explore thoroughly, reason deeply, and run extended verification loops", and that "Argon remains the ideal choice for the majority of software engineering and knowledge work".
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Argon remains the ideal choice for the majority of software engineering and knowledge work, while Carbon is built for tasks that test the limits of a model’s intelligence like complex, multi-step coding and debugging and open-ended scientific research and discovery — using more tokens than Argon to explore thoroughly, reason deeply, and run extended verification loops.
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Gemini 4 Carbon is now available (10 Nov 2026)
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Gemini 4 Carbon, which Google built for hard tasks, opens to paying developers 12 Nov 2026
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