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Google’s Gemini 4 Hydrogen beats Argon on an outside test

Google’s new fast model costs $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million output tokens. Artificial Analysis, an independent testing firm, scores it 51 at its default setting, against 50 for the bigger Gemini 4 Argon. It is rolling out in the Gemini app, Search and the API.

Google released Gemini 4 Hydrogen on November 12 as the fast, everyday model of its Gemini 4 family. It follows Gemini 3.8 Flash. Google also added Orchestrator to Antigravity, its coding app, which switches between models within one session.

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Google opens Gemini 4 Carbon to paying users

Paying developers, businesses and Google AI Ultra subscribers can now use Google’s strongest model. It costs $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens until November 30, then twice that. An outside test group scores it 60, behind Claude Fable 5.2 at 65.

Google made Gemini 4 Carbon available on November 10, two weeks after giving it first to a group of cyber defenders. It also started a preview of /swarm in Antigravity, its coding app, which turns one prompt into a team of AI agents.

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Google’s Gemini 4 Carbon tops a new independent test

Google calls Carbon its strongest model, with top cybersecurity skills. Only some cyber defenders get it this week. Artificial Analysis already ranks it first, one point ahead of Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5.5.

Google announced Gemini 4 Carbon on October 28, two weeks after Gemini 4 Argon reached paying users. It goes first to a small group of cyber defenders and then to more trusted partners, Google says. There is no public app or API yet. Artificial Analysis, an independent testing firm, scores it 59 on its new Intelligence Index, the highest of any model.

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Google’s Genie 4 builds worlds with sound you can steer

Google DeepMind’s new world model makes interactive scenes with sound and speech, and users can change them by typing. For now only trusted testers can use it, and nobody outside Google has tested its claims.

Google DeepMind released Genie 4 as a research preview for trusted testers on October 27. The model creates a world that people can move through, drawn frame by frame as they go, and change with text prompts. Google says Google AI Ultra subscribers and some developers will get it soon, but has given no date or price.

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Google opens Gemini 4 Argon to paying users and developers

Since October 13, AI Pro and Ultra subscribers can use it in the Gemini app and in Search, and developers through the paid API. Free users don’t get it yet, and the launch price doubles on December 1.

Google released Gemini 4 Argon, its newest flagship model, to many more people on October 13, two weeks after it went only to cyber defenders. Subscribers to Google AI Pro and Ultra can use it in the Gemini app and in AI Mode in Search. Developers can use it through the paid Gemini API. Free users and AI Plus subscribers don’t get it for now.

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Chips & Infrastructure

Xreal’s Android XR glasses will start at $1,279

Only buyers who paid a deposit can preorder Aura now. Xreal says first shipments go to the US, Canada, Japan and South Korea, with orders for everyone in the coming weeks.

Xreal said on October 7 that its Aura glasses, which run Google’s Android XR, will cost $1,279 with 256GB of storage and $1,499 with 512GB. Preorders are open to people who paid for a reservation. Two outlets report that the first deliveries start in mid-November.

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Free Gemini users get mostly Flash-Lite from October 9

Without a plan, Gemini now picks the model: most prompts go to the smallest, Flash-Lite. The cheapest paid plan loses Pro, and AI Pro subscribers gain Deep Think.

Google has updated its Gemini help pages: from October 9, people using the Gemini app without a Google AI plan get Auto by default. Most prompts go to the Flash-Lite model, and harder ones may go to Flash or Pro. Subscribers to AI Plus keep Flash-Lite and Flash but lose Pro, on a date Google will send them by email.

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Google’s Gemini 4 Argon goes to cyber defenders first

Google’s own tests put its new flagship first on 12 of 18 benchmarks. An independent index scores it level with GPT-6 Astra and behind Claude Opus 5.5, and there is no date for a wider release.

Google announced Gemini 4 Argon, its new flagship AI model, on September 30. For now it goes only to a group of trusted cyber defenders and to Google’s own teams, and Google gave no date for developers or consumers. Google says Argon leads its rivals on most of the tests it published. Artificial Analysis, which tests models independently, scores it level with OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra.

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Agents & Apps

Google’s Gemini can now talk to customers as a video avatar

Custom faces from a photo need Google’s approval.

Google made Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar available to Gemini Enterprise customers on September 24. Businesses can build voice agents that appear as a person or a cartoon character, speak 97 languages, and look up data while they talk. Every video carries an invisible SynthID watermark.

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Google’s Gemini 4 has entered post-training

DeepMind’s new chief wants an early version out as soon as possible.

Koray Kavukcuoglu, the new head of Google DeepMind, said this week that Gemini 4 has entered post-training. He wants to release an early version as soon as possible, “much earlier” than the end of the year. He gave no date, and safety testing is still under way.

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Google’s new Gemini voices can copy a person’s voice

That person must first read a consent line. No outside test has checked the safeguard.

Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS on September 23. The text-to-speech models speak more than 100 languages and cost about $0.54 to $0.81 per hour of audio until the end of the year. Both can clone a voice from a short sample after the voice’s owner records a consent statement.

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Gemini can now make a full song

The hard part is using it well.

Google added Lyria 3.5 to Gemini and its developer tools. It can make longer songs with voices, and the developer price starts at eight cents per song.

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