Google’s Gemini 4 coding agent now switches models mid-task — and finishes 19% faster

Google launched Gemini 4 Hydrogen on Thursday alongside a new system that changes how coding agents use AI models. Rather than keeping its most capable model running across an entire session, Google is pairing Hydrogen with the more powerful Gemini 4 Carbon and switching between the two as the work progresses. The company says the combination gets nearly the same results as running Carbon on its own while using 24% less quota and finishing tasks 19% faster. How Orchestrator handles the work The switching runs through Orchestrator , a new feature in Google’s Antigravity development...

Source: The New Stack

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