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by JoeCortopassi 495 days ago
> ...the new Gemini "replacement" is still by all accounts a disaster

Small nit: the initial rollout of Gemini was a dumpster fire. It is now quite good. For my use cases, I can't get any other current LLM to give me better results than Gemini 2.0 Flash. It's also free

But even that kind of proves your point, right? Pretend you 100% believe me without verifying. That means in a year or two the winner has transferred between ~3 companies. This is not a cheap mantle to keep passing around. The AI wars are going to get heated over the next year or two
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jug 495 days ago
I'm happy to see this because it's my experience with Gemini too. Google did terribly with Bard (clearly an emergency launch to say "Hey, we're here too!"), Gemini 1.0 and even Gemini 1.5 was only decent in the top 'Pro' tier.

Gemini 2.0 has been a huge step forward and I'm using Flash daily at work for coding. Very liberal limits and much cheaper than OpenAI too. I'm easily in the $0 tier as I don't exceed 15 requests per minute or 1500 per day. I use it with Chatbox AI and my Google Gemini API key.

They've been a bit late to the party though. But the fumbling from Amazon and Apple has opened an opportunity to STILL be ahead and launch the first powerful AI assistant this year. It's no doubt one of the reasons they developed Gemini 2.0 as an agentic AI and I'm only waiting for hardware refreshes now.

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lolinder 495 days ago
Just to be clear, are we talking about the Gemini based Assistant replacement? The last time I checked that version couldn't even set reminders or timers, so if that's improved since then I may actually try switching.

And yes, agreed that this space is very fragile right now for all the companies.

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