Gemini 4 Carbon goes first to cybersecurity defenders via DeepMind's Fairwind Program

Pichai's launch post put Carbon at #1 on Artificial Analysis v5.0 with a score of 59. It also posts 54.8% on ExploitGym and 71.0% on CWE-bench.

Access is staged: defenders first through the Fairwind Program, then developers, businesses and consumers.

HN reaction was largely negative on the staged rollout, with commenters calling it "paternalistic gatekeeping." Testers praised Carbon's 3D and security work but said it was slow on frontend coding.