Google rolls out Gemini 4 Hydrogen, a faster successor to Gemini 3.8 Flash
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Google released Gemini 4 Hydrogen on November 12, 2026, replacing Gemini 3.8 Flash in Search. The model is 2.5x faster, offers a 1M-token window, four thinking levels, and $1.50/$7.50 pricing.
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Timeline · 78 reports
- 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 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 18:06 · 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 18:04 · Google AI Blog
Introducing Gemini 4 Hydrogen for Agentic Workflows - 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 - 2026-11-10 23:13 · Unite.AI
Google Cloud Opens Gemini for Healthcare Preview in the U.S. - 2026-11-10 17:46 · The Next Web
Google Cloud launches Gemini for healthcare to take on hospital paperwork - 2026-11-10 17:37 · DEV Community — AI
Google Cloud opens Gemini for healthcare in preview - 2026-11-10 14:00 · Forbes AI
Google Cloud Launches Gemini For Healthcare, Unveiling New Agentic Layer And Capabilities - 2026-11-10 14:00 · Forbes AI
Google Cloud Launches Gemini For Healthcare, Unveiling New Agentic Layer & Capabilities - 2026-11-10 13:30 · AI News
Google Cloud launches Gemini for Healthcare in preview - 2026-11-10 13:00 · Fortune AI
Google launches Gemini for Healthcare, and hospitals like Northwell hope it brings down your medical bill - 2026-11-10 13:00 · Google: The Keyword
Google Cloud launches Gemini for healthcare. - 2026-11-10 12:00 · Google Cloud AI Blog
Introducing Gemini for healthcare