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Gemini 4 Carbon: Gemini 4 Carbon: our next frontier model

Sunday, November 1, 2026 · what moved in the AI release cycle in those 24 hours.

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New benchmark readings

Amazon Nova 2 Pro GDP.pdf: 2 · Epoch AI
Gemini 4 Carbon Coding: 81.09 · BenchLM.ai
Gemini 4 Carbon Knowledge: 88.24 · BenchLM.ai
Qwen3.8 Coding: 52.72 · BenchLM.ai
Qwen3.8 Agentic: 65.99 · BenchLM.ai
Qwen3.8 Reasoning: 81.3 · BenchLM.ai
Qwen3.8 Knowledge: 65.47 · BenchLM.ai
Qwen3.8 MultimodalGrounded: 91.9 · BenchLM.ai
Qwen3.8 InstructionFollowing: 94.7 · BenchLM.ai
Amazon Nova Humanity's Last Exam: 4.4 · Epoch AI
Claude 3.5 Sonnet Humanity's Last Exam: 4.1 · Epoch AI
Claude 3.7 Sonnet Humanity's Last Exam: 8 · Epoch AI
Claude Fable 5 Coding: 71.37 · BenchLM.ai
Claude Fable 5 Agentic: 75.27 · BenchLM.ai
Claude Fable 5 GDP.pdf: 30 · Epoch AI
Claude Fable 5 Knowledge: 81.46 · BenchLM.ai
Claude Fable 5.1 Coding: 76.4 · BenchLM.ai
Claude Fable 5.1 Agentic: 80.7 · BenchLM.ai
Claude Fable 5.1 Reasoning: 85.2 · BenchLM.ai
Claude Fable 5.1 Knowledge: 86.04 · BenchLM.ai
Claude Fable 5.1 Humanity's Last Exam: 46.5 · Epoch AI
Claude Fable 5.1 GDP.pdf: 29.6 · Epoch AI
Claude Haiku 4.5 ExploitBench: 13.7 · Epoch AI
Claude Haiku 5.5 Coding: 52.42 · BenchLM.ai
Claude Haiku 5.5 Agentic: 61.83 · BenchLM.ai
Claude Haiku 5.5 Reasoning: 59.8 · BenchLM.ai
Claude Haiku 5.5 Knowledge: 64.84 · BenchLM.ai
Claude Haiku 5.5 Humanity's Last Exam: 30.1 · Epoch AI
Claude Mythos 5 ExploitBench: 70.6 · Epoch AI
Claude Opus 4 Humanity's Last Exam: 10.7 · Epoch AI
Claude Opus 4.1 Humanity's Last Exam: 11.5 · Epoch AI
Claude Opus 4.5 Math: 61.3 · BenchLM.ai
Claude Opus 4.5 Multilingual: 96.5 · BenchLM.ai
Claude Opus 4.5 Humanity's Last Exam: 25.2 · Epoch AI
Claude Opus 4.6 Coding: 48.22 · BenchLM.ai
Claude Opus 4.6 MultimodalGrounded: 74.7 · BenchLM.ai
Claude Opus 4.6 Humanity's Last Exam: 34.4 · Epoch AI
Claude Opus 4.7 Coding: 55.33 · BenchLM.ai
Claude Opus 4.7 Agentic: 61.24 · BenchLM.ai
Claude Opus 4.7 Knowledge: 65.55 · BenchLM.ai
Claude Opus 4.7 Humanity's Last Exam: 36.2 · Epoch AI
Claude Opus 4.7 ExploitBench: 26.5 · Epoch AI
Claude Opus 4.7 GDP.pdf: 21 · Epoch AI
Claude Opus 4.8 Coding: 60.7 · BenchLM.ai
Claude Opus 4.8 Agentic: 60.67 · BenchLM.ai
Claude Opus 4.8 Knowledge: 70.93 · BenchLM.ai
Claude Opus 4.8 MultimodalGrounded: 88.1 · BenchLM.ai
Claude Opus 4.8 GDP.pdf: 24 · Epoch AI
Claude Opus 4.8 Math: 84.4 · BenchLM.ai
Claude Opus 4.8 Reasoning: 62.8 · BenchLM.ai
Claude Opus 5 Coding: 70.49 · BenchLM.ai
Claude Opus 5 Agentic: 78.78 · BenchLM.ai
Claude Opus 5 Knowledge: 81.4 · BenchLM.ai
Claude Opus 5 MultimodalGrounded: 90.9 · BenchLM.ai
Claude Opus 5 Reasoning: 81 · BenchLM.ai
Claude Opus 5 GDP.pdf: 24 · Epoch AI
Claude Opus 5.5 Coding: 82.87 · BenchLM.ai
Claude Opus 5.5 Agentic: 90.07 · BenchLM.ai
Claude Opus 5.5 Reasoning: 86.1 · BenchLM.ai
Claude Opus 5.5 Knowledge: 89.53 · BenchLM.ai
Claude Opus 5.5 MultimodalGrounded: 91.8 · BenchLM.ai
Claude Opus 5.5 GDP.pdf: 30.6 · Epoch AI
Claude Sonnet 4 Humanity's Last Exam: 7.8 · Epoch AI
Claude Sonnet 4.5 Humanity's Last Exam: 13.7 · Epoch AI
Claude Sonnet 4.6 MultimodalGrounded: 58.6 · BenchLM.ai
Claude Sonnet 4.6 ExploitBench: 23.6 · Epoch AI
Claude Sonnet 4.6 GDP.pdf: 18 · Epoch AI
Claude Sonnet 5 Coding: 57.46 · BenchLM.ai
Claude Sonnet 5 Agentic: 66.37 · BenchLM.ai
Claude Sonnet 5 Knowledge: 64.29 · BenchLM.ai
Claude Sonnet 5 MultimodalGrounded: 80.3 · BenchLM.ai
Command A InstructionFollowing: 90.7 · BenchLM.ai
DeepSeek V4 Pro SWE-Bench Pro: 55.4 · Hugging Faceself reported
DeepSeek-V3 Multilingual: 55.5 · BenchLM.ai
Gemini 1.5 Pro Humanity's Last Exam: 4.6 · Epoch AI
Gemini 2.0 Flash Humanity's Last Exam: 6.6 · Epoch AI
Gemini 2.5 Flash Humanity's Last Exam: 12.1 · Epoch AI
Gemini 2.5 Pro Humanity's Last Exam: 21.6 · Epoch AI
Gemini 3 Pro Knowledge: 60.28 · BenchLM.ai
Gemini 3 Pro MultimodalGrounded: 79.6 · BenchLM.ai
Gemini 3 Pro InstructionFollowing: 86.1 · BenchLM.ai
Gemini 3 Pro Humanity's Last Exam: 37.5 · Epoch AI
Gemini 3.1 Pro Knowledge: 66.44 · BenchLM.ai
Gemini 3.1 Pro MultimodalGrounded: 81.1 · BenchLM.ai
Gemini 3.1 Pro GDP.pdf: 17 · Epoch AI
Gemini 3.1 Pro Humanity's Last Exam: 46.4 · Epoch AI
Gemini 3.1 Pro ExploitBench: 26.1 · Epoch AI
Gemini 3.1 Pro InstructionFollowing: 90.3 · BenchLM.ai
Gemini 3.5 Flash Coding: 50.35 · BenchLM.ai
Gemini 3.5 Flash Agentic: 51.91 · BenchLM.ai
Gemini 3.5 Flash Reasoning: 70.9 · BenchLM.ai
Gemini 3.5 Flash MultimodalGrounded: 87.4 · BenchLM.ai
Gemini 3.5 Flash InstructionFollowing: 87.7 · BenchLM.ai
Gemini 3.5 Flash GDP.pdf: 14 · Epoch AI
Gemini 3.5 Flash Knowledge: 65.08 · BenchLM.ai
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite GDP.pdf: 10 · Epoch AI
Gemini 3.6 Flash Coding: 51.16 · BenchLM.ai
Gemini 3.6 Flash Knowledge: 64.34 · BenchLM.ai
Gemini 3.6 Flash GDP.pdf: 14 · Epoch AI
Gemini 3.6 Flash MultimodalGrounded: 87.2 · BenchLM.ai
Gemini 3.6 Flash Agentic: 52.39 · BenchLM.ai
Gemini 3.7 Flash Coding: 57.53 · BenchLM.ai
Gemini 3.7 Flash Agentic: 61.07 · BenchLM.ai
Gemini 3.7 Flash Knowledge: 70.77 · BenchLM.ai
Gemini 3.7 Flash MultimodalGrounded: 85.9 · BenchLM.ai
Gemini 3.7 Flash GDP.pdf: 23.8 · Epoch AI
Gemini 3.8 Flash Coding: 59.8 · BenchLM.ai
Gemini 3.8 Flash Agentic: 65.79 · BenchLM.ai
Gemini 3.8 Flash Reasoning: 74.3 · BenchLM.ai
Gemini 3.8 Flash Knowledge: 69.19 · BenchLM.ai
Gemini 3.8 Flash MultimodalGrounded: 88.2 · BenchLM.ai
Gemini 3.8 Flash Humanity's Last Exam: 44.5 · Epoch AI
Gemini 3.8 Flash GDP.pdf: 23.4 · Epoch AI
Gemini 4 Argon Coding: 72.16 · BenchLM.ai
Gemini 4 Argon Agentic: 78.26 · BenchLM.ai
Gemini 4 Argon Knowledge: 82.61 · BenchLM.ai
Gemini 4 Argon Reasoning: 86.9 · BenchLM.ai
Glm 5 2 Coding: 53.66 · BenchLM.ai
Glm 5 2 Agentic: 57.12 · BenchLM.ai
Glm 5 2 InstructionFollowing: 89.9 · BenchLM.ai
Glm 5 2 Math: 78.4 · BenchLM.ai
GLM-4.5 Humanity's Last Exam: 8.3 · Epoch AI
GLM-4.6 SWE-Bench Pro: 9.7 · Hugging Faceself reported
GLM-5 Multilingual: 89.5 · BenchLM.ai
GLM-5 InstructionFollowing: 88.6 · BenchLM.ai
GLM-5.1 Math: 66.7 · BenchLM.ai
GLM-5.1 InstructionFollowing: 93.8 · BenchLM.ai
GLM-5.1 ExploitBench: 16 · Epoch AI
GLM-5.1 SWE-Bench Pro: 58.4 · Hugging Faceself reported
GLM-5.2 SWE-Bench Pro: 62.1 · Hugging Faceself reported
GPT-4.1 Humanity's Last Exam: 5.4 · Epoch AI
GPT-4.1 Multilingual: 61.5 · BenchLM.ai
GPT-4.5 Humanity's Last Exam: 5.4 · Epoch AI
GPT-4o Humanity's Last Exam: 2.7 · Epoch AI
GPT-4o Multilingual: 30.2 · BenchLM.ai
GPT-5 InstructionFollowing: 86.4 · BenchLM.ai
GPT-5 Humanity's Last Exam: 31.6 · Epoch AI
GPT-5.1 InstructionFollowing: 89.4 · BenchLM.ai
GPT-5.1 Humanity's Last Exam: 23.7 · Epoch AI
GPT-5.2 MultimodalGrounded: 75.5 · BenchLM.ai
GPT-5.2 InstructionFollowing: 92.6 · BenchLM.ai
GPT-5.2 Humanity's Last Exam: 27.8 · Epoch AI
GPT-5.2 Knowledge: 59.11 · BenchLM.ai
GPT-5.4 Coding: 47.84 · BenchLM.ai
GPT-5.4 Agentic: 54.44 · BenchLM.ai
GPT-5.4 Reasoning: 64.2 · BenchLM.ai
GPT-5.4 Knowledge: 68.1 · BenchLM.ai
GPT-5.4 MultimodalGrounded: 71.3 · BenchLM.ai
GPT-5.4 InstructionFollowing: 90.7 · BenchLM.ai
GPT-5.4 Humanity's Last Exam: 36.2 · Epoch AI
GPT-5.5 Agentic: 61.03 · BenchLM.ai
GPT-5.5 GDP.pdf: 26 · Epoch AI
GPT-5.5 MultimodalGrounded: 74.2 · BenchLM.ai
GPT-5.5 Coding: 62.3 · BenchLM.ai
GPT-5.5 Knowledge: 71.23 · BenchLM.ai
GPT-5.5 InstructionFollowing: 93.3 · BenchLM.ai
GPT-5.5 ExploitBench: 41.8 · Epoch AI
GPT-5.5 Reasoning: 69.7 · BenchLM.ai
GPT-5.6 Luna Coding: 61.74 · BenchLM.ai
GPT-5.6 Luna Agentic: 59.23 · BenchLM.ai
GPT-5.6 Luna Knowledge: 63.43 · BenchLM.ai
GPT-5.6 Luna MultimodalGrounded: 79.8 · BenchLM.ai
GPT-5.6 Luna Reasoning: 58.2 · BenchLM.ai
GPT-5.6 Sol Coding: 67.1 · BenchLM.ai
GPT-5.6 Sol Agentic: 68.76 · BenchLM.ai
GPT-5.6 Sol Knowledge: 76.32 · BenchLM.ai
GPT-5.6 Sol MultimodalGrounded: 89.9 · BenchLM.ai
GPT-5.6 Sol InstructionFollowing: 89.1 · BenchLM.ai
GPT-5.6 Sol GDP.pdf: 30.7 · Epoch AI
GPT-5.6 Sol Reasoning: 76.4 · BenchLM.ai
GPT-5.6 Terra Coding: 61.99 · BenchLM.ai
GPT-5.6 Terra Agentic: 60.91 · BenchLM.ai
GPT-5.6 Terra Knowledge: 69.1 · BenchLM.ai
GPT-5.6 Terra MultimodalGrounded: 84.7 · BenchLM.ai
GPT-5.6 Terra InstructionFollowing: 87.1 · BenchLM.ai
GPT-5.6 Terra Reasoning: 69.1 · BenchLM.ai
GPT-6 Astra Coding: 74.71 · BenchLM.ai
GPT-6 Astra Agentic: 75.97 · BenchLM.ai
GPT-6 Astra Reasoning: 93.3 · BenchLM.ai
GPT-6 Astra Knowledge: 85.76 · BenchLM.ai
GPT-6 Astra Humanity's Last Exam: 54.8 · Epoch AI
GPT-6 Luna Coding: 51.4 · BenchLM.ai
GPT-6 Luna Agentic: 53.82 · BenchLM.ai
GPT-6 Luna Reasoning: 59.2 · BenchLM.ai
GPT-6 Luna Knowledge: 62.79 · BenchLM.ai
GPT-6 Sol Coding: 64.96 · BenchLM.ai
GPT-6 Sol Agentic: 58.16 · BenchLM.ai
GPT-6 Sol Reasoning: 73.1 · BenchLM.ai
GPT-6 Sol Knowledge: 80.16 · BenchLM.ai
GPT-6.1 Sol Coding: 70.29 · BenchLM.ai
GPT-6.1 Sol Agentic: 77.24 · BenchLM.ai
GPT-6.1 Sol Reasoning: 90.5 · BenchLM.ai
GPT-6.1 Sol Knowledge: 86.18 · BenchLM.ai
gpt-oss SWE-Bench Pro: 16.2 · Hugging Faceself reported
Grok 4.20 MultimodalGrounded: 54.3 · BenchLM.ai
Grok 4.3 GDP.pdf: 8 · Epoch AI
Grok 4.3 InstructionFollowing: 97.1 · BenchLM.ai
Grok 4.3 MultimodalGrounded: 79 · BenchLM.ai
Grok 4.5 Coding: 55.48 · BenchLM.ai
Grok 4.5 Agentic: 61.35 · BenchLM.ai
Grok 4.5 Knowledge: 66.43 · BenchLM.ai
Grok 4.5 Reasoning: 54.1 · BenchLM.ai
Grok 4.6 Coding: 58.43 · BenchLM.ai
Grok 4.6 Agentic: 70.04 · BenchLM.ai
Grok 4.6 Knowledge: 68.47 · BenchLM.ai
Grok 4.6 Reasoning: 61.4 · BenchLM.ai
Grok 4.7 Reasoning: 58.8 · BenchLM.ai
Kimi K2 SWE-Bench Pro: 27.7 · Hugging Faceself reported
Kimi K2.5 MultimodalGrounded: 70.4 · BenchLM.ai
Kimi K2.5 Multilingual: 87.3 · BenchLM.ai
Kimi K2.5 Humanity's Last Exam: 24.4 · Epoch AI
Kimi K2.5 SWE-Bench Pro: 50.7 · Hugging Faceself reported
Kimi K2.6 MultimodalGrounded: 73.5 · BenchLM.ai
Kimi K2.6 ExploitBench: 16.3 · Epoch AI
Kimi K2.6 SWE-Bench Pro: 58.6 · Hugging Faceself reported
Kimi K2.6 Math: 76.8 · BenchLM.ai
Kimi K3 MultimodalGrounded: 90 · BenchLM.ai
Kimi K3 Coding: 58.71 · BenchLM.ai
Kimi K3 Agentic: 67.63 · BenchLM.ai
Kimi K3 Knowledge: 67.22 · BenchLM.ai
Kimi K3 Reasoning: 69.7 · BenchLM.ai
Llama 4 Humanity's Last Exam: 5.7 · Epoch AI
MiniMax M2.1 SWE-Bench Pro: 36.8 · Hugging Faceself reported
MiniMax M2.5 SWE-Bench Pro: 55.4 · Hugging Faceself reported
MiniMax M2.7 InstructionFollowing: 93 · BenchLM.ai
MiniMax M2.7 ExploitBench: 13.3 · Epoch AI
MiniMax M2.7 SWE-Bench Pro: 56.2 · Hugging Faceself reported
MiniMax M3 SWE-Bench Pro: 59 · Hugging Faceself reported
MiniMax M3 MultimodalGrounded: 59 · BenchLM.ai
MiniMax M3 InstructionFollowing: 93.8 · BenchLM.ai
Mistral Large 3 GDP.pdf: 2 · Epoch AI
Mistral Large 4 Reasoning: 80.8 · BenchLM.ai
Mistral Medium 3 Humanity's Last Exam: 4.5 · Epoch AI
Muse Glimmer 30B MultimodalGrounded: 65.1 · BenchLM.ai
Muse Glimmer 30B SWE-Bench Pro: 51.2 · Hugging Faceself reported
Muse Spark Humanity's Last Exam: 40.6 · Epoch AI
Muse Spark Coding: 49.75 · BenchLM.ai
Muse Spark Agentic: 53.37 · BenchLM.ai
Muse Spark MultimodalGrounded: 83.6 · BenchLM.ai
Muse Spark Knowledge: 62.11 · BenchLM.ai
Muse Spark InstructionFollowing: 93.3 · BenchLM.ai
Muse Spark Open Coding: 51.04 · BenchLM.ai
Muse Spark Open Knowledge: 59.21 · BenchLM.ai
Nemotron 3 Multilingual: 89.2 · BenchLM.ai
Nemotron 3 InstructionFollowing: 92.1 · BenchLM.ai
Nemotron 3 GDP.pdf: 2 · Epoch AI
North Mini Code SWE-Bench Pro: 40.2 · Hugging Faceself reported
o1 InstructionFollowing: 86 · BenchLM.ai
o1 Humanity's Last Exam: 8.1 · Epoch AI
o3 Humanity's Last Exam: 20.3 · Epoch AI
o3 InstructionFollowing: 87.4 · BenchLM.ai
o4-mini Humanity's Last Exam: 18.1 · Epoch AI
Phi-4 Multilingual: 1 · BenchLM.ai
Qwen 3 SWE-Bench Pro: 21.4 · Hugging Faceself reported
Qwen 3 Multilingual: 83.8 · BenchLM.ai
Qwen 3.5 MultimodalGrounded: 73.3 · BenchLM.ai
Qwen 3.5 Multilingual: 93.8 · BenchLM.ai
Qwen 3.5 InstructionFollowing: 93 · BenchLM.ai
Qwen 3.6 MultimodalGrounded: 75.8 · BenchLM.ai
Qwen 3.6 Multilingual: 93.8 · BenchLM.ai
Qwen 3.6 InstructionFollowing: 85.8 · BenchLM.ai
Qwen 3.6 SWE-Bench Pro: 53.5 · Hugging Faceself reported
Qwen 3.6 Math: 69.5 · BenchLM.ai
Qwen 3.7 Max Knowledge: 59.72 · BenchLM.ai
Qwen 3.7 Max Multilingual: 100 · BenchLM.ai
Qwen 3.7 Max InstructionFollowing: 92.8 · BenchLM.ai
Qwen 3.7 Max Math: 79 · BenchLM.ai
Qwen3-Coder SWE-Bench Pro: 38.7 · Hugging Faceself reported
Qwen3-Coder-Next SWE-Bench Pro: 44.3 · Hugging Faceself reported

News & rumors added

NewsGemini 4 Carbon

Gemini 4 Carbon: our next frontier model

Google’s October 28 announcement describes Gemini 4 Carbon, its reported cybersecurity and coding results, staged Fairwind rollout, and introductory API pricing.

Google · Oct 28, 2026

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