Google launches Gemini 4 Hydrogen, a low-cost agentic model, across products
Google announced Gemini 4 Hydrogen, a new Flash-level multimodal model with a 1M token window, priced at $1.50/1M input and $7.50/1M output tokens. It is available across AI Studio, the Gemini API, Search, the Gemini app, and Antigravity, and introduces an xhigh reasoning level. Benchmarks show it nearly ties Claude Sonnet 5.5 and GPT-6.1 Sol on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index at lower cost, and it powers an upgraded AI Mode in Search.
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Koray Kavukcuoglu / Google : Google launches Gemini 4 Hydrogen, built for rapid execution across diverse agentic workflows, priced at $1.50/1M input tokens and $7.50/1M output tokens — Hydrogen brings cutting-edge intelligence to everyone. — SVP, Google DeepMind and Chief AI Architect, Google
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Abner Li / 9to5Google : Google says Gemini 4 Hydrogen is available across AI Studio, the Gemini API, Search, paid AI Pro and Ultra tiers in Antigravity, and more — After this week's Carbon availability, Google today unveiled Gemini 4 Hydrogen instead of keeping the “Flash” branding. — Gemini app
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Powered by Gemini 4 Hydrogen, Google's AI Mode is getting better at understanding complex queries, surfacing relevant links, and delivering richer visual responses.
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Google says its new Gemini 4 Hydrogen model can give more helpful answers to complex questions, including "questions with multiple parts, hard-to-understand typos, or highly specific requests." The new model can break down your questions and address each part in its responses. It's available starting today in search, the Gemini app, all tiers of Google AI Studio, the Gemini API, Gemini for business, and in Google Antigravity for Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers. Robby Stein, VP of product at Google Search, says it's "now the new default model in AI Mode & being used for your hardest questions in AI Overviews." Google says Gemini 4 Hydrog … Read the full story at The Verge.
@artificialanlys : Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index: Gemini 4 Hydrogen nearly ties Claude Sonnet 5.5 and GPT-6.1 Sol, at a third of Sonnet's cost but ~2.5x that of Sol — Google's new Gemini 4 Hydrogen has Intelligence just below Claude Sonnet 5.5 and GPT-6.1 Sol, at a third of Sonnet's cost but ~2.5x that of GPT-6.1 Sol @GoogleDeepMind has released their third new model in six weeks. Gemini 4 Hydrogen introduces an xhigh reasoning level and scores 54 on the Artifi...
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一觉醒来，谷歌又发 Gemini 4 模型了。 11 月 12 日，谷歌正式发布 Gemini 4 Hydrogen，并同步推出了多模型智能调度系统 Orchestrator。 这是一个 Flash 级别的大模型（也是 Gemini 3.8 Flash 的继任者），原生多模态，输入、思考和输出共享 100 万 token 窗口，但根据 Gemini 新的命名方式谷歌为其选用了全新的 Hydrogen（氢）作为级别名称。 在 Gemini 4 产品矩阵中，Carbon 和 Argon 专注于深度推理与复杂任务，而 Hydrogen 则扮演「快速执行引擎」的角色。Hydrogen 主打高效运行、快速响应，非常适合日常编码、智能体（Agentic）工作流以及多步骤数据处理。 借助 Hydrogen 进行即时 3D 编码，Geminisland 允许任何人通过简单的指令在共享的像素岛屿上实时生成自定义结构。玩家能以第一人称视角自由漫步与探索。 在多项基准测试上，Hydrogen 在知识工作、自动化和代码修复任务上很有竞争力： 它对标的是 Anthropic 的 Claude Sonnet 5.5 和 OpenAI 的 GPT-6.1 Terra。在涉及复杂图计算、SQL 查询以及高并发企业级数据工作流的实测中，Hydrogen 的运行速度较前代提升了 2-2.8 倍；同时在需要跨模态理解长视频、大型代码库（百万级上下文满载）时，首字延迟（TTFT）依然保持在较低水平。 在 Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index 上，Hydrogen 默认 high 档得到了 51 分，最高 xhigh 档为 54 分，这个成绩还超过了谷歌自己更大参数的 Argon（50 分）。 可见 Hydrogen 模型增加了一个 xhigh 推理强度。谷歌建议主要任务从 high 开始，只有遇到困难的多步问题时再使用 xhigh，因为后者可能增加延迟、token 消耗，并在简单任务上过度思考。 借助 Hydrogen 模型，谷歌将 Gemini 4 系列大幅推广，让所有人都可以用上，包括所有级别的 Google AI Studio、Gemini API、Gemini for Business、Gemini 应用、Google 搜索，以及 Google Antigr
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