# Bad Influence story: Ethan Mollick calls Gemini 4 Carbon a very good model after early access

Active · 1 article · 1 source · First reported 11-10 11:56. Times are ET.
Story page: https://badinfluence.news/story/d0d1d5a1-7f7b-4e8d-9a3c-e8954ac83b5e

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Latest update (11-10 11:56): Ethan Mollick says Gemini 4 Carbon is a very good model

Overview: Ethan Mollick says he had early access to Gemini 4 Carbon and calls it a very good model that improves on Argon. He says Carbon thinks differently from Claude and GPT while remaining highly capable, with its own strengths and weaknesses. He reports that Carbon reproduced a video clip he supplied as a Three.js demo.

The report is a single post on X from Mollick, a professor who writes about AI, and does not include benchmark results or details of the access arrangement.

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1. 11-10 11:56 · Ethan Mollick · [Ethan Mollick says Gemini 4 Carbon is a very good model](https://badinfluence.news/items/k14lasspf8hric5l7mif3oias)
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