Google unveils Gemini 4 Carbon with agent swarm and $2/$10 per-M token pricing, Microsoft announces cloud price adjustments, and a new multimodal benchmark highlights cost-effective performance for enterprise AI workloads.
Gemini 4 Carbon is now available via the API for developers and enterprises at an introductory price of $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens. The model also introduces a preview /swarm feature that lets a single prompt launch a coordinated team of agents.
Effective January 1, 2027, Microsoft will change commercial cloud prices in AUD, CNY, INR, NOK, and NZD. Adjustments range from a 4% decrease in AUD to a 15.7% increase in INR.
The Multimodal Knowledge Agent benchmark shows Gemini 4 Carbon achieving the second-best quality while costing six times less per task than the top model. The benchmark evaluates agents on visually complex, multi-step professional tasks.