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by fariszr 208 days ago
This is a big jump in most benchmarks.And if it can match other models in coding while having that Google TPM inference speed and the actually native 1m context window, it's going to be a big hit.

I hope it's isn't such a sycophant like the current gemini 2.5 models, it makes me doubt its output, which is maybe a good thing now that I think about it.
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danielbln 208 days ago
> it's over for the other labs.

What's with the hyperbole? It'll tighten the screws, but saying that it's "over for the other labs' might be a tad premature.

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fariszr 208 days ago
I mean over in that I don't see a need to use the other models. Codex models are the best but incredibly slow. Claude models are not as good(IMO) but much faster. If gemini can beat them while having being faster and having better apps with better integrations, i don't see a reason why I would use another provider.
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nprateem 208 days ago
You should probably keep supporting competitors since if there's a monopoly/duopoly expect prices to skyrocket.
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risyachka 208 days ago
> it's over for the other labs.

Its not over and never will be for 2 decade old accounting software, it is definitely will not be over for other AI labs.

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xnx 208 days ago
Can you explain what you mean by this? iPhone was the end of Blackberry. It seems reasonable that a smarter, cheaper, faster model would obsolete anything else. ChatGPT has some brand inertia, but not that much given it's barely 2 years old.
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risyachka 208 days ago
Yeah iPhone was the end of Blackberry but Google Pixel was not the end of iPhone.

The new Gemini is not THAT far of a jump to switch your org to a new model if you already invested in e.g. OpenAI.

The difference must be night and day to call it "its over".

Right they all are marginally different. Today google fine tuned their model to be better, tomorrow it will be new Kimi, after that DeepSeek.

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vitaflo 208 days ago
Ask yourself why Microsoft Teams won. These are business tools first and foremost.
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bazzargh 207 days ago
That's an odd take. Teams doesn't have the leading market share in videoconferencing, Zoom does. I can't judge what it's like because I've never yet had to use Teams - not a single company that we deal with uses it, it's all Zoom and Chime - but I do hear friends who have to use it complain about it all the time. (Zoom is better than it used to be, but for all that is holy please get rid of the floating menu when we're sharing screens)
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