Google’s Gemini 4 Carbon, Mistral’s open-weight Large 4
**Google’s Gemini 4 Carbon, Mistral’s open- weight Large 4 (“Le Chonk”), Cohere’s large sovereign funding round ( with a Canadian government stake), ### Model Releases - **Google announced Gemini 4 Carbon ** (Oct 28), ranking #1 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5 at 59. It posts strong cybersecurity results (88.2% on SEC-bench Pro for vulnerability finding, 54.8% on ExploitGym, 71% on CWE-bench for patching) and gains on coding/agentic/long-horizon tasks. Introductory pricing is $2 per million input tokens / $10 per million output; initial access is limited to vetted cyber defenders via the Fairwind Program , with broader availability later. This matters because it reclaims the independent overall lead shortly after Gemini 4 Argon and prioritizes defensive cyber capabilities amid rising real-world AI-assisted security risks. - **Mistral released open weights for Mistral Large 4 (“Le Chonk”)** (Oct 29). It is a ~1-trillion-parameter natively...