Google's Gemini 4 Hydrogen lands on AI Gateway: stronger agentic coding and tool use, same latency class
Google's Gemini 4 Hydrogen is now available on AI Gateway, succeeding Gemini 3.8 Flash. It targets agentic coding, knowledge work and tool use, handling longer engineering tasks and producing better-researched documents, spreadsheets and presentations in fewer agent steps while staying in the same latency class. It follows system instructions, formatting requirements and task boundaries more closely, orchestrates tools more reliably across long conversations, and its gains in visual reasoning and technical problem-solving support multimodal workflows.