After this week’s Carbon availability, Google today unveiled Gemini 4 Hydrogen instead of keeping the “Flash” branding. This model is billed as bringing “cutting-edge intelligence to everyone.” Benchmarks Compared to Gemini 3.8 Flash (which launched in September), Hydrogen is billed as a “major standalone upgrade” with “significant leaps in both speed and intelligence.” It offers native 1 million-token input and up to 1 million output tokens. Specifically: Hydrogen finishes “tasks 2.5 times fast...