Ask HN: How did Gemini go from being awful to incredible back to awful?

3•wewewedxfgdf•2h ago

What happened?

Gemini 12 months ago was dead last the worst of all LLMS.

Then it streaked miles ahead of the others to be absolutely unbelievably good.

Then a month or so ago it turned back into being garbage. I waited for it to be fixed but it has remained bad.

I do not understand.

Comments

throw03172019•1h ago

Quantizing To decrease cost

verdverm•1h ago

The Gemini 3 series are far better than 2.5, which explains the first half

I haven't experienced any degradation myself, but many times people attribute this to companies running quantified versions of the model during peak demand

blast•1h ago

I haven't noticed it being awful again. Can you give examples?

ElCapitanMarkla•20m ago

Gemini has been fantastic for me the last month or so.

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