Google launches Gemini 4 Hydrogen, a faster model now powering Search and GitHub Copilot
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Google released Gemini 4 Hydrogen on November 12, 2026, a fast model for coding and agentic workflows that it says is 2.5x faster than its predecessor and now runs AI Mode in Search. It is also generally available in GitHub Copilot.
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Timeline · 77 reports
- 2026-11-13 21:35 · DEV Community — AI
Gemini 4 Hydrogen - 2026-11-13 18:23 · GitHub Blog
Gemini 4 Hydrogen in GitHub Copilot - 2026-11-13 18:23 · GitHub Copilot changelog
Gemini 4 Hydrogen in GitHub Copilot - 2026-11-13 15:41 · DEV Community — AI
Google Search Just Got Its Biggest AI Upgrade Yet: Gemini 4 Hydrogen Is Live for Everyone - 2026-11-13 14:20 · DEV Community — AI
Gemini 4 Hydrogen: Google's Fast Model for Everyday Coding - 2026-11-13 14:13 · DailyAI
Google’s Gemini 4 Hydrogen Is 2.5 Times Faster and Now Powers Search - 2026-11-13 13:17 · Analytics Vidhya
Gemini 4 Hydrogen: Hands-On Review - 2026-11-13 11:45 · DEV Community — AI
Migrating from Gemini 3.8 Flash to Hydrogen and Decisions API - 2026-11-13 10:37 · DEV Community — AI
Gemini 4 Hydrogen: What Google’s New AI Model Means for Software Developers - 2026-11-13 09:52 · r/machinelearningnews
Google releases Gemini 4 Hydrogen, a fast agentic model with a 1M window (57% on Terminal-Bench 4.1, self-reported) - 2026-11-13 09:45 · MarkTechPost
Google Releases Gemini 4 Hydrogen: 2.5x Faster Than Gemini 3.8 Flash - 2026-11-13 09:24 · Analytics India Magazine
Google Launches Gemini 4 Hydrogen for Faster Coding and AI Workflows - 2026-11-13 07:14 · Mashable AI
Google unveils Gemini 4 Hydrogen, its new AI model built for speed - 2026-11-13 05:33 · DEV Community — AI
Gemini 4 Hydrogen for developers: pricing, thinking levels and what's verified - 2026-11-13 04:10 · Economic Times Tech
Google rolls out Gemini 4 Hydrogen with 2.5x speed boost, four reasoning levels - 2026-11-13 04:10 · Mint AI
Google Search can now understand complicated questions and typos better with Gemini 4 Hydrogen - 2026-11-13 03:31 · DEV Community — AI
Gemini 4 Hydrogen: The Price Is the Story — $1.50/$7.50, Four Thinking Levels, and a Router That Saves Your Budget - 2026-11-13 02:20 · DEV Community — AI
Gemini 4 Hydrogen: Google's Fast Execution Model Beats Argon on One Benchmark — Here's the Catch - 2026-11-12 23:57 · DEV Community — AI
Gemini 4 Hydrogen Dropped This Week. Which AI Model Do You Actually Code With Every Day, and Why? - 2026-11-12 22:50 · SiliconANGLE AI
Google releases Gemini 4 Hydrogen, a lower-cost model said to outscore Argon - 2026-11-12 22:41 · DEV Community — AI
Google ships Gemini 4 Hydrogen at $1.50 per million input tokens - 2026-11-12 22:40 · TestingCatalog AI News
Google launches Gemini 4 Hydrogen for Pro and Ultra users - 2026-11-12 22:30 · VentureBeat AI
Google launches Gemini 4 Hydrogen — a faster, smarter, pricier Flash successor - 2026-11-12 20:35 · DEV Community — AI
Google's Gemini 4 Hydrogen: the Fast Daily Driver for Agentic Work - 2026-11-12 20:19 · The Next Web
Google’s Gemini 4 Hydrogen brings a fast, cheaper model to everyone - 2026-11-12 20:07 · Google AI Blog
Introducing Gemini 4 Hydrogen for Agentic Workflows - 2026-11-12 19:58 · The Decoder
Google's Gemini 4 Hydrogen outscores the bigger Argon just four weeks after its launch - 2026-11-12 19:30 · DEV Community — AI
gemini 4 hydrogen: What Automation Builders Should Know About Google's Fast New Model - 2026-11-12 19:23 · Ars Technica AI
Google rolls out Gemini 4 Hydrogen, finally replacing 3.8 Flash - 2026-11-12 18:55 · Techmeme
Google says Gemini 4 Hydrogen is available across AI Studio, the Gemini API, Search, paid AI Pro and Ultra tiers in Antigravity, and more - 2026-11-12 18:52 · Hacker News Front Page
Gemini 4 Hydrogen and Orchestrator - 2026-11-12 18:40 · Techmeme
Google launches Gemini 4 Hydrogen, calling it a major upgrade over Gemini 3.8 Flash, at $1.50/1M input and $7.50/1M output tokens across its 1M context window - 2026-11-12 18:37 · r/GeminiAI
Gemini 4 Hydrogen is officially out — 2.5x faster than 3.8 Flash and beats Argon on intelligence while costing less - 2026-11-12 18:28 · Unite.AI
Google Launches Gemini 4 Hydrogen for Everyday Agentic Workflows - 2026-11-12 18:20 · 9to5Mac
Google announces Gemini 4 Hydrogen with ‘significant leaps’ in speed, intelligence - 2026-11-12 18:14 · r/singularity
Gemini 4 Hydrogen AA Score - 2026-11-12 18:06 · Google AI Blog
Gemini 4 Hydrogen: everyday coding and agentic workflows for developers - 2026-11-12 18:05 · Google DeepMind Blog
Introducing Gemini 4 Hydrogen for Agentic Workflows - 2026-11-12 18:04 · r/singularity
Google releases Gemini 4 Hydrogen, its new fast model, at $1.50/$7.50 per million tokens. Compared to 3.8 Flash, it finishes tasks 2.5x faster. 4 thinking levels - 2026-11-12 18:04 · r/singularity
Introducing Gemini 4 Hydrogen - 2026-11-12 18:03 · Google AI Blog
Google Search gets a major upgrade with Gemini 4 Hydrogen - 2026-11-12 18:03 · AlphaSignal
Google Releases Gemini 4 Hydrogen to Run Agent Tasks 19% Faster - 2026-11-12 18:01 · r/GeminiAI
Introducing Gemini 4 Hydrogen - 2026-11-12 18:01 · 9to5Google
Google announces Gemini 4 Hydrogen, rolling out to Gemini app - 2026-11-12 18:00 · Google DeepMind Blog
Introducing Gemini 4 Hydrogen - 2026-11-12 18:00 · Google: The Keyword
Introducing Gemini 4 Hydrogen - 2026-11-12 18:00 · Google: The Keyword
Gemini 4 Hydrogen: everyday coding and agentic workflows for developers - 2026-11-12 18:00 · Google: The Keyword
Google Search gets a major upgrade with Gemini 4 Hydrogen - 2026-11-12 17:50 · r/GeminiAI
Free Gemini 4 Hydrogen - 2026-11-12 17:13 · r/GeminiAI
Gemini 4 Hydrogen just released! - 2026-11-12 15:16 · r/artificial
Google's Gemini Decision 1 returns zero text: it scores up to 1,000 yes/no or choice questions per call at $0.10/M input - 2026-11-12 14:38 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
Google's Gemini Decision 1 Answers 1,000 Questions in One API Call - 2026-11-12 10:53 · InfoWorld AI
Google’s Gemini Decisions API to handle up to 1,000 questions per request - 2026-11-12 09:21 · DEV Community — AI
Gemini Decision 1: Three Typed Checks in One API Request - 2026-11-12 05:15 · DEV Community — AI
Google launches Decisions API for fast routing and scoring - 2026-11-12 02:24 · DEV Community — AI
Google Launches Gemini Decision 1, Its First Decision-Focused Model - 2026-11-12 01:22 · SiliconANGLE AI
Google enters decision model market with Gemini Decisions API - 2026-11-12 01:00 · DEV Community — AI
Fast multimodal control flow with the Gemini Decisions API - 2026-11-12 00:00 · Vercel Blog
Gemini 4 Hydrogen now available on AI Gateway - 2026-11-11 23:22 · r/GeminiAI
Google introduces their first decision model: Gemini Decision 1 - 2026-11-11 23:03 · VentureBeat AI
Google’s Gemini Decision 1 model scores up to 1,000 questions in one API call - 2026-11-11 22:27 · DEV Community — AI
gemini decisions api: How Small Teams Can Use It to Sort Leads and Tickets - 2026-11-11 22:03 · Simon Willison's Weblog
Gemini Decisions API - 2026-11-11 21:21 · MarkTechPost
Google Launches Gemini Decisions API With Gemini Decision 1 at $0.10/M Tokens - 2026-11-11 20:12 · The Decoder
Google joins the decision-model wave with Gemini Decision 1, scoring 1,000 questions in a single pass - 2026-11-11 20:01 · DEV Community — AI
Google introduces Gemini Decisions API that scores 1,000 closed-set choices in a single pass - 2026-11-11 19:54 · Engadget
Google brings the Gemini app to Apple CarPlay - 2026-11-11 19:05 · Techmeme
Google launches Gemini Decisions API, powered by its new Gemini Decision 1 model, to return predefined answers with confidence scores, at $0.10/1M input tokens (Google) - 2026-11-11 18:30 · Unite.AI
Google Launches Gemini Decisions API for Multimodal AI Workflows - 2026-11-11 18:24 · r/singularity
Google Launches Gemini Decision-1 Model for Fast Structured Outputs - 2026-11-11 18:00 · Google: The Keyword
Gemini Decisions API: Fast, calibrated multimodal decisions - 2026-11-11 17:31 · 9to5Google
Google rolling out Gemini app for CarPlay - 2026-11-11 17:29 · 9to5Mac
Google Gemini for CarPlay now available - 2026-11-11 17:29 · 9to5Mac
Google Gemini coming to CarPlay - 2026-11-11 17:12 · Google AI Blog
Talk it through with Gemini, now on Apple CarPlay - 2026-11-11 17:00 · Google: The Keyword
Talk it through with Gemini, now on Apple CarPlay - 2026-11-11 00:00 · Vercel Blog
Gemini Decision 1 now available on AI Gateway