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by sameermanek 363 days ago
Gemini is by far the most confusing product of all time. The paid version for it is available in 3 forms: 1. Gemini pro (which gets you more google drive storage and some form of access to veo so people obviously get that) 2. Google AI studio, just to piss off redmond devs and which is used by no one outside google 3. This CLI, which has its own plan.

Then there are 3rd party channels, if you have a recent samsung phone, you get 1 yr access to AI features powered by gemini, after which you need to pay. And lord knows where else has google been integrating gemini now.

Ive stopped using google's AI now. Its like they have dozens of teams within gemini on completely different slack sessions.

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The positive side is, there's a ton of free offerings you can pick up. Google workspace has one, ai studio has, deepmind etc etc
I think AI studio is the best form factor and cheapest?
maybe but I think it shares whatever you put in there... zero privacy
Shares with Google yes but I don't think it's like publicly available to general web. But I guess whether it's a concern depend on use case
Meanwhile,

Microsoft Copilot

Microsoft 365 Copilot

Copilot Pro

Microsoft Security Copilot

Microsoft Copilot Studio

GitHub Copilot

Copilot+ PC

Microsoft 365 Copilot for Sales

Microsoft 365 Copilot for Service

Microsoft 365 Copilot for Finance