{"type":"post","id":"models-gemini-api-1ba0b4","slug":"models-gemini-api-1ba0b4","title":"Models - Gemini API","description":"Google’s Gemini API model catalog now lists Gemini 4 Carbon and Gemini 4 Argon, with links to try both in AI Studio.","retrieval_nugget":"Google’s Gemini API model catalog now lists Gemini 4 Carbon and Gemini 4 Argon, with links to try both in AI Studio. The page describes Carbon as its strongest reasoning model and Argon as a faster, lower-token-spend option for several complex tasks. For builders, this is a concrete new model surface to evaluate—not confirmation of the rumored “Hydrogen” name.","published_at":"2026-11-11","updated_at":"2026-11-11","record_date":"2026-11-11","date_kind":"published_at","topics":["gemini","google"],"entities":["Google","Gemini API","Gemini 4 Carbon","Gemini 4 Argon","Google AI Studio"],"related_patterns":["agent-economics-moves-to-completed-work"],"novelty_label":"new_fact","what_changed":"Google’s model documentation now lists Gemini 4 Carbon and Gemini 4 Argon, adding concrete model names and API details to the anticipated Gemini launch.","prior_refs":[],"source_url":"https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models/gemini","source_urls":["https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models/gemini"],"schema_version":"newruntime-agent-readable-v0.2","stable_id":"post:models-gemini-api-1ba0b4","status":"published","visuals":[],"editor":{"role":"editor","name":"Andrey Reshetnikov","profile":"https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.md","profile_json":"https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.json","same_as":["https://www.linkedin.com/in/reshetnikov1/","https://t.me/lapetuse"]},"routes":{"html":"https://newruntime.com/posts/models-gemini-api-1ba0b4/","markdown":"https://newruntime.com/posts/models-gemini-api-1ba0b4.md","json":"https://newruntime.com/posts/models-gemini-api-1ba0b4.json"},"markdown_url":"https://newruntime.com/posts/models-gemini-api-1ba0b4.md","next_reads":[{"type":"topic","path":"/topics/gemini/","url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/gemini/","title":"Gemini","reason":"Explore the gemini topic hub.","media_type":"text/html","markdown_url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/gemini.md","json_url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/gemini.json"},{"type":"topic","path":"/topics/google/","url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/google/","title":"Google","reason":"Explore the google topic hub.","media_type":"text/html","markdown_url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/google.md","json_url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/google.json"},{"type":"collection","path":"/posts/","url":"https://newruntime.com/posts/","title":"Field Notes","reason":"Open the latest editorial analysis.","media_type":"text/html","json_url":"https://newruntime.com/posts.json"},{"type":"collection","path":"/sources/","url":"https://newruntime.com/sources/","title":"Sources","reason":"See the original sources this archive cites.","media_type":"text/html"}]}