Google Unveils Gemini 4 Carbon, Saying It Tops OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra
Summary
- Google has launched Gemini 4 Carbon, a new AI model that it said outperforms OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra.
- Gemini 4 Carbon beat Astra with a broad intelligence index score of 60 and a 53.9% success rate on AutomationBench 1.0.
- Carbon’s API pricing is $4 for input and $20 for output, or 40% of Astra’s level, and using the model requires a subscription to the Google AI Ultra plan starting at $100 a month.
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Google on November 10 unveiled Gemini 4 Carbon, a new artificial intelligence model the company said outperforms OpenAI’s advanced GPT-6 Astra.
According to AI evaluation firm Artificial Analysis, Carbon scored 60 on a broad intelligence index, ahead of Astra’s 57. Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5.2, released a day earlier, remained in the lead with a score of 65.
Gemini 4 Carbon also outperformed Astra in the AutomationBench 1.0 test, which measures success rates across 657 real-world workplace tasks in sales, finance and human resources. Carbon posted a 53.9% success rate, compared with Astra’s 41.4%.
Google pitched cost efficiency as the model’s main advantage. Carbon’s application programming interface pricing is $4 for input and $20 for output per 1 million tokens, the basic unit of AI computing, or 40% of Astra’s pricing of $10 for input and $50 for output.
Users must subscribe to the Google AI Ultra plan, which starts at $100 a month in Korea, to access the model.
Kim In-yeop, Silicon Valley correspondent inside@hankyung.com
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