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Google launches Gemini 4 Hydrogen, replacing Gemini 3.8 Flash across its products

Google says the new model is 2.5 times faster than its predecessor even in high mode, with fewer fabricated claims and better coding scores, and it is available immediately to many users.

Nov 13, 2026, 03:37 UTC · 2 min read

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Google released Gemini 4 Hydrogen, which replaces Gemini 3.8 Flash across the company's products.
Google says it is 2.5 times faster than 3.8 Flash in high mode and cuts fabricated claims by more than 5x.
API pricing is $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million output tokens, unchanged from 3.8 Flash.

Google has released Gemini 4 Hydrogen, a new AI model that takes over from Gemini 3.8 Flash across the company's products, Ars Technica reported. The name continues Google's practice of using chemical elements for its models, following the recent Argon and Carbon releases.

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Anthropic's Claude Duet agent tested: useful reminders, some misplaced nagging

A Verge reviewer spent a week with Anthropic's new consumer agent, which reads email, Slack, calendar and documents, and found it helpful at spotting gaps but poor at judging tone and urgency.

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Nvidia says chip-tracking rules are feasible, lawmaker tells MIT Technology Review

An Illinois congressman says Nvidia representatives told him the location checks proposed in the Chip Security Act can be built, even though an industry group called them potentially infeasible.

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Google launches Gemini 4 Hydrogen, replacing Gemini 3.8 Flash across its products

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Anthropic's Claude Duet agent tested: useful reminders, some misplaced nagging

Nvidia says chip-tracking rules are feasible, lawmaker tells MIT Technology Review

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