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title: Google's Gemini 4 Carbon Ranks First on an Independent AI Index, One Point Ahead of Claude Opus 5.5
description: Google's Gemini 4 Carbon leads the Artificial Analysis index by one point, but goes to cyber defenders first, with no date for businesses.
author: Darie Nani (Editor-in-Chief)
date: 2026-11-01T15:45:13.688Z
updated: 2026-11-01T15:45:13.708Z
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Google's new Gemini 4 Carbon model [ranks first of 83 models on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5](https://artificialanalysis.ai/articles/gemini-4-carbon-new-number-1), the independent benchmarking firm's main ranking, with a score of 59 against 58 for Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5. Google announced Carbon on October 28, about two weeks after it rolled out Gemini 4 Argon globally.

Demis Hassabis, [chair of Google DeepMind and chief scientist of Alphabet](https://www.sovereignmagazine.com/article/google-deepmind-leadership-hassabis-chair-dean-exit), wrote on X that "Gemini 4 Carbon is SOTA across key benchmarks" and that it pairs frontier capabilities with safety and security research. In a post bylined by Koray Kavukcuoglu, Google's chief AI architect, the company calls Carbon "our strongest model with state-of-the-art cybersecurity and long horizon capabilities" and says it builds on Argon, a model whose [demand has already left Google short of computing capacity](https://www.sovereignmagazine.com/article/google-compute-shortage-gemini-4-pichai-deepmind).

## Google Is Giving Carbon to Cyber Defenders Before Developers and Businesses

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