Google Tops AI Smarts Ranking as OpenAI Slashes Prices

According to PYMNTS, Google DeepMind announced Gemini 4 Carbon on Wednesday (Oct. 28), two weeks after its last top model, Gemini 4 Argon.[1] PYMNTS reports that Google calls Carbon its strongest model yet.[1]PYMNTS says the model's biggest advance is in cybersecurity: finding software flaws, judging whether hackers could use them and writing fixes.[1] According to the outlet, Google's Chrome team says Carbon performed more than 10 times better than another lab's large frontier model at writing high-quality security fixes.[1]PYMNTS reports that Google says it now ranks first on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, with a score of 59.[1] Crypto Briefing reports that Carbon "edged out Anthropic and OpenAI by a single point"[2] in the index's latest overhaul. It also reports that OpenAI placed two models in the index: GPT-6 Astra at 57 and GPT-6.1 Sol at 55.[2]According to PYMNTS, OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Terra on Monday (Oct. 26), a mid-tier model at half the price of its predecessor.[1] The outlet reports that OpenAI says it handles computer tasks, such as filling forms and moving through software, more than three times faster than its flagship GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol models.[1]PYMNTS says that on an internal OpenAI benchmark, the error rate fell from 53.6% for its predecessor, GPT-5.6 Terra, to 16.7%.[1]Crypto Briefing reports that in the new index version, the gap between closed and open-weights models grew, and that the best-performing open-weights model in the new index is Moonshot AI's Kimi K3.1 Pro, which scored 46.[2]