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Google has made its Gemini 4 Carbon model available to everyone. Until two weeks ago, access was limited to a small group of cybersecurity experts; now any user can try it, though the launch price is $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, with a planned increase to $4 and $20 respectively from December 1. In the announcement, Simon Willison demonstrates how the model produces “pelicans” at low, medium, and high reasoning levels, using them to create a Three.js 3‑D animation of Yonkers turning into a giant robot that traverses Manhattan, Queens, and Brooklyn, all based on OpenStreetMap data. He also shares a video of a similar experience built with Antigravity’s /swarm feature, where the model constructs an open‑world web game set on Google’s campus, combining asset generation in Blender, WebGL shaders, and procedural audio.

This news is significant because it democratizes access to a high‑performance AI tool, potentially speeding up the creation of interactive content and complex applications without deep programming expertise. The upcoming price adjustment also highlights providers’ efforts to balance broad availability with the economic sustainability of their services.

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