Gemini 4 Hydrogen

Re:Gemini 4 Hydrogen by pqdbr on Thursday November 12, 2026 @01:26PM (#50471846)

Same impression here. If this is Google's strategy we'll have to migrate to Luna, because costs are already high for our workload on 3.8 Flash (which in itself was already a 40% increase compared to 3.7 flash due to being more verbose and thinking more) and this now doubles cost once again.

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Re:Gemini 4 Hydrogen by ComputerGuru on Thursday November 12, 2026 @01:28PM (#50471887)

Yeah, and they rug-pulled 3.7 very quickly, silently redirecting to 3.8 Flash. Raised our prices and broke some workflows.

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Re:Gemini 4 Hydrogen by alexgoodhart on Thursday November 12, 2026 @04:14PM (#50474374)

Yeah they fuckin did

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Re:Gemini 4 Hydrogen by amarcheschi on Thursday November 12, 2026 @01:27PM (#50471857)

Isn't something open weight cheaper (and probably better as well)?

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Re:Gemini 4 Hydrogen by ComputerGuru on Thursday November 12, 2026 @01:30PM (#50471910)

Depends on your needs. Gemini Flash has best bang for your buck on visual tasks and best multilingual support/intelligence for non-Western/non-East-Asian languages; better than paid or OSS alternatives.

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Re:Gemini 4 Hydrogen by amarcheschi on Thursday November 12, 2026 @01:36PM (#50472008)

Yes I gave for granted textual tasks but they're not the only ones. If I remember correctly, mistral large should be good as well on image tasks while being cheap(er). I never had to do anything with less common languages tho

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