New this week

Launches and plan changes, each linked to its source.

Gemini 4 Carbon announced

Google's new frontier model, aimed at long-horizon coding and cybersecurity. It starts with cyber defenders and trusted partners; a wider rollout to developers and consumers is promised. Introductory price $2 per million input tokens and $10 output.

Nano Banana 2.1 model card published

Google DeepMind published the model card for Nano Banana 2.1, an image generation and editing model based on Gemini 3.6 Flash that is used in the Gemini app.