Google ships Gemini 4 Hydrogen: beats its bigger Argon model on intelligence index, 3x coding gains
量子位 · wechat · 2026-11-13
Google released Gemini 4 Hydrogen, successor to Gemini 3.8 Flash. It scores 51 on Artificial Analysis' index in High mode (54 in xhigh), surpassing Gemini 4 Argon's 50; is 2.5x faster than 3.8 Flash; Terminal-Bench 4.1 jumps from 18.2% to 57%; SWE-sweep hits 13.5% vs Claude Sonnet 5.5's 3.1%. Pricing: $1.5/M input, $7.5/M output within a 1M-token context. A new Antigravity Orchestrator routes work between Carbon and Hydrogen, cutting quota use 24% while matching Carbon's success rate on Terminal-Bench 4.0. Demos include pixel animation inside Google Sheets and auto-generated presentations.
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