Gemini 4 Carbon released, benchmarks show slight lead over Claude

According to Tom's Hardware, Google released its latest AI model, Gemini 4 Carbon. The publication reports that Gemini 4 Carbon topped intelligence rankings charts and edged out Claude Opus 5.5 by a narrow margin. Tom's Hardware also cites benchmarks claiming it is among the frontier models with the lowest hallucination rates. The original report places the release last week, but it provides no specific launch date, nor does it name the benchmark suites, the exact scores, the hallucination rate figures, or the testing organizations behind those claims. At this point, only the above details can be verified, and information such as the model's technical specifications, pricing, and availability remains unavailable.