{"type":"post","id":"gemini-4-hydrogen-now-available-on-ai-gateway-7b3652","slug":"gemini-4-hydrogen-now-available-on-ai-gateway-7b3652","title":"Gemini 4 Hydrogen now available on AI Gateway","description":"Vercel says Gemini 4 Hydrogen is now available through AI Gateway, where developers can call it as google/gemini-4-hydrogen and configure it in several coding agents.","retrieval_nugget":"Vercel says Gemini 4 Hydrogen is now available through AI Gateway, where developers can call it as google/gemini-4-hydrogen and configure it in several coding agents. The announcement presents Hydrogen as a successor to Gemini 3.8 Flash that keeps the same latency class while improving long-task coding and tool use; those capability claims are Vercel’s, not independent measurements.","published_at":"2026-11-12","updated_at":"2026-11-12","record_date":"2026-11-12","date_kind":"published_at","topics":["gemini","coding-agents","claude"],"entities":["Vercel","AI Gateway","Gemini 4 Hydrogen","Gemini 3.8 Flash","Google","Claude Code","Codex","Cursor"],"related_patterns":["harness-architecture-outlives-model-choice"],"novelty_label":"new_fact","what_changed":"Gemini 4 Hydrogen is now available through Vercel AI Gateway, succeeding Gemini 3.8 Flash with improved agentic coding, tool use, and knowledge work.","prior_refs":["https://newruntime.com/posts/introducing-gemini-4-hydrogen-for-agentic-workflows-2b9294/"],"source_url":"https://vercel.com/changelog/gemini-4-hydrogen-now-available-on-ai-gateway","source_urls":["https://vercel.com/changelog/gemini-4-hydrogen-now-available-on-ai-gateway"],"schema_version":"newruntime-agent-readable-v0.2","stable_id":"post:gemini-4-hydrogen-now-available-on-ai-gateway-7b3652","status":"published","visuals":[],"editor":{"role":"editor","name":"Andrey Reshetnikov","profile":"https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.md","profile_json":"https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.json","same_as":["https://www.linkedin.com/in/reshetnikov1/","https://t.me/lapetuse"]},"routes":{"html":"https://newruntime.com/posts/gemini-4-hydrogen-now-available-on-ai-gateway-7b3652/","markdown":"https://newruntime.com/posts/gemini-4-hydrogen-now-available-on-ai-gateway-7b3652.md","json":"https://newruntime.com/posts/gemini-4-hydrogen-now-available-on-ai-gateway-7b3652.json"},"markdown_url":"https://newruntime.com/posts/gemini-4-hydrogen-now-available-on-ai-gateway-7b3652.md","next_reads":[{"type":"topic","path":"/topics/gemini/","url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/gemini/","title":"Gemini","reason":"Explore the gemini topic hub.","media_type":"text/html","markdown_url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/gemini.md","json_url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/gemini.json"},{"type":"topic","path":"/topics/coding-agents/","url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/coding-agents/","title":"Coding Agents","reason":"Explore the coding-agents topic hub.","media_type":"text/html","markdown_url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/coding-agents.md","json_url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/coding-agents.json"},{"type":"topic","path":"/topics/claude/","url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/claude/","title":"Claude","reason":"Explore the claude topic hub.","media_type":"text/html","markdown_url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/claude.md","json_url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/claude.json"},{"type":"collection","path":"/posts/","url":"https://newruntime.com/posts/","title":"Field Notes","reason":"Open the latest editorial analysis.","media_type":"text/html","json_url":"https://newruntime.com/posts.json"},{"type":"collection","path":"/sources/","url":"https://newruntime.com/sources/","title":"Sources","reason":"See the original sources this archive cites.","media_type":"text/html"}]}