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A comment on Gemini 4 Hydrogen.

Re:Gemini 4 Hydrogen by thereitgoes456 on Thursday November 12, 2026 @01:13PM (#50471611)
Is this a replacement for Flash-Lite? Because it’s being used to serve answers for Search.

The new naming scheme seems shockingly poor though, “Pro” and “Flash” made intuitive sense to me, and Anthropic and OpenAI kept a sense of scale. Nobody is going to intuitively say “Oh yes, Hydrogen is smaller than Carbon”.

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Re:Gemini 4 Hydrogen by cflewis on Thursday November 12, 2026 @01:17PM (#50471670)
I don't believe so. From my use I think it is a Flash model through and through.

I have found it a good subagent workhorse for code implementation, with some higher level model doing the spec and review.

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Re:Gemini 4 Hydrogen by npn on Thursday November 12, 2026 @01:21PM (#50471740)
No. It has the same price with 3.8 flash (with no introduction price it seems)
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