Google says Gemini 4 Carbon beats its predecessors at finding and fixing security flaws

Google’s Gemini 4 Carbon is a frontier AI model designed for software engineering and cybersecurity tasks, with safeguards built on those of its predecessor, Argon. SEC-bench Pro (Source: Google) Google says its teams have seen Carbon spend days investigating and fixing bugs across large codebases and low-level systems. The model was also trained to handle complex tasks and high-pressure situations. Finding and fixin…

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