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Gemini 4 Hydrogen

377 points • by dvaplima • today at 6:01 PM • 248 comments • view on HN

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harryVic • today at 6:25 PM

Their super smart recursively improving ASI models didn't tell them this naming is absolutely terrible?

TacticalCoder • today at 6:22 PM

Are we going to talk about naming and confusing ways to access it, or are we going to discuss how capable the model is?

Every single time a Google model comes out, an army of Anthropic shills sidetrack the discussion.

Can we look at what the model does and discuss whether Google is still in the game or not? (naming models and whether you need to access it by clicking a drop-down menu or making a prayer ain't really relevant)

saberience • today at 6:51 PM

Another day, another nonsensically named google product.

I quit using Gemini models months ago because they are incomprehensible to understand in terms of when to use them and how to navigate the terrible GCP and Gemini UI. It’s a Kafkaesque nightmare.

ElProlactin • today at 6:09 PM

With all the names for their AI offerings, I need to come up for Oxygen.

beernet • today at 6:11 PM

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Alice_0307 • today at 7:42 PM

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hodder • today at 6:12 PM

Maybe I'm not on the latest models (I do actually pay the min plan), but just this week I tried Gemini again. It still doesn't even get the current date/time of day correct. If it cant do that, I cant trust any output from it. I have no idea how Google fumbled so badly, but benchmark scores don't mean a thing if you cant even get your LLM to output the current date and time correctly.

You could vibe code a better LLM with Fable than what they have delivered. It is embarassing.

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sergiotapia • today at 6:13 PM

Aren't Google leaders embarrassed that the first thing I think of when I see their models drop is: I will see if I can call it from openrouter?

Why are there 7 different ways to call this model from Google? Which one should I use?

Is no one at the wheel calling the shots at Google and it's a PIP every man for himself? I want to try them out, don't know how.

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