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Google's Gemini 4 Hydrogen outscores the bigger Argon just four weeks after its launch

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Newsrooms: 16
Last 3 hours: 4 reports
Momentum: Steady

Reports per hour, last 24 hours

How the coverage splits

50%50%

Where it’s heading

Slowing. Likely 15 to 17 newsrooms by 2:40pm AEDT. Calls like this were right 93% of the time. How we know

Against the past week

Google's Gemini 4 Hydrogen replaces the Flash series, but benchmarks suggest it also makes the pricier Argon obsolete. On the independent Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, Hydrogen nearly matches Claude Sonnet 5.5 for less money but costs about 2.5 times more per task than GPT-6.1 Sol and stil

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The story so far

OfficialCooling

Reports: 24
Newsrooms and sources: 16
Last 3 hours: 4
Last 24 hours

Cooling: well below its busiest stretch (4 in the last three hours, 5 in the three before).

First with it: Business Insider, 1 hr 21 min before anyone else.

From Google AI directly.

The numbers behind it

How it spread, where it’s heading and where the coverage is from

Reports a day, last 7 days

Reports a day, last 7 days
Day	Reports
Sat	0
Sun	0
Mon	0
Tue	0
Wed	0
Thu	11
Today	13

Where the coverage is from

How it spread

Newsrooms: 16
Reports: 24
Over: 1.2 days
To three newsrooms: 1.4 hr

Time	Newsroom	Total
Thu, 12 Nov, 3:08am AEDT	Business Insider	1
Thu, 12 Nov, 4:29am AEDT	9to5Mac	2
Thu, 12 Nov, 4:31am AEDT	9to5Google	3
Thu, 12 Nov, 5:00am AEDT	Android Authority	4
Thu, 12 Nov, 5:30am AEDT	AppleInsider	5
Thu, 12 Nov, 5:57am AEDT	Bloomberg	6
Thu, 12 Nov, 6:50am AEDT	MacRumors	7
Thu, 12 Nov, 6:54am AEDT	Engadget	8
Thu, 12 Nov, 7:12am AEDT	The Decoder	9
Thu, 12 Nov, 10:51am AEDT	Digital Trends	10
Thu, 12 Nov, 12:22pm AEDT	SiliconANGLE	11
Fri, 13 Nov, 1:50am AEDT	Ars Technica	12
Fri, 13 Nov, 5:00am AEDT	Google AI	13
Fri, 13 Nov, 5:24am AEDT	XDA	14
Fri, 13 Nov, 5:46am AEDT	Neowin	15
Fri, 13 Nov, 7:19am AEDT	The Next Web	16

Time	Source	Total
Thu, 12 Nov, 3:08am AEDT	Business Insider	1
Thu, 12 Nov, 4:29am AEDT	9to5Mac	2
Thu, 12 Nov, 4:31am AEDT	9to5Google	3
Thu, 12 Nov, 5:00am AEDT	Android Authority	4
Thu, 12 Nov, 5:30am AEDT	AppleInsider	5
Thu, 12 Nov, 5:57am AEDT	Bloomberg	6
Thu, 12 Nov, 6:30am AEDT	9to5Google	7
Thu, 12 Nov, 6:35am AEDT	Android Authority	8
Thu, 12 Nov, 6:50am AEDT	MacRumors	9
Thu, 12 Nov, 6:54am AEDT	Engadget	10
Thu, 12 Nov, 7:12am AEDT	The Decoder	11
Thu, 12 Nov, 10:51am AEDT	Digital Trends	12
Thu, 12 Nov, 12:22pm AEDT	SiliconANGLE	13
Thu, 12 Nov, 5:00pm AEDT	Android Authority	14
Fri, 13 Nov, 1:50am AEDT	Ars Technica	15
Fri, 13 Nov, 5:00am AEDT	Google AI	16
Fri, 13 Nov, 5:01am AEDT	9to5Google	17
Fri, 13 Nov, 5:24am AEDT	XDA	18
Fri, 13 Nov, 5:46am AEDT	Neowin	19
Fri, 13 Nov, 5:46am AEDT	Digital Trends	20
Fri, 13 Nov, 6:15am AEDT	Android Authority	21
Fri, 13 Nov, 6:23am AEDT	Ars Technica	22
Fri, 13 Nov, 6:58am AEDT	The Decoder	23
Fri, 13 Nov, 7:19am AEDT	The Next Web	24

When	Likely range	Most likely
Now	15	15
In 1 hours (9:40am AEDT)	15 to 15	15
In 3 hours (11:40am AEDT)	15 to 16	15
In 6 hours (2:40pm AEDT)	15 to 17	16
In 12 hours (8:40pm AEDT)	15 to 19	16
In 24 hours (8:40am AEDT)	15 to 20	17

Google's Gemini 4 Hydrogen outscores the bigger Argon just four weeks after its launch

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Where the coverage is from

How it spread

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Google's Gemini 4 Hydrogen outscores the bigger Argon just four weeks after its launch

Reports a day, last 7 days

Where the coverage is from

How it spread

Newsrooms on it

More like this

Sources and credits

Two headlines

Every report follow-ups included

Where it’s heading

How the coverage changed

Every report, in order

In this story

Connected stories