Google's Gemini 4 Carbon Lands at Number Two on Arena Leaderboard
Anastasios Angelopoulos announced that Google's new model, Gemini 4 Carbon, debuted on the Arena leaderboard during the live show, placing immediately behind Opus 5.5 Max and establishing Google as the number two lab in the world on the benchmark.
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“Carbon puts Google the number two lab in the world on our aging arena. Huge result.”
Anastasios Angelopoulos
“and it is number two right now it is right behind opus 5.5 max and above sauna 5.5 above astra is a truly truly frontier model”
Anastasios Angelopoulos
Heard on The Cognitive Revolution — “AI:AM: Carbon in the Arena, Mistral's Le Chonk, the Agent-Run Economy, Ferroelectric RAM + New Hacks”, published Saturday, October 31, 2026. Heardvine summarizes and quotes with attribution and timestamps, and links to the original everywhere.