Google says its Carbon model runs for days on complex engineering tasks
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Google says its teams have seen Carbon, a model linked to Gemini 4 Carbon, run for days on multi-step engineering tasks.
According to the post, the model keeps working through dead ends on jobs such as root-causing and patching subtle bugs across large codebases and low-level systems. The source is a Google post reported on X, and the report includes no independent measurements, benchmarks, or availability details.
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Richard Seroter@rseroterXGoogle says its Carbon model runs for days on complex engineering tasksAIGoogle says its teams have seen Carbon run for days, persisting through dead ends on multi-step engineering tasks such as root-causing and patching subtle bugs across large codebases and low-level systems. The post links to an introduction of Gemini 4 Carbon.

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