Google's model release is pure PR puffery. It's no coincidence that it was released on the day of its earnings call.
I got it via the "Pro" plan, exclusively for personal task usage. So no agentic programming.
For starters, the limits are dreadfully low. Five messages on medium is already enough to trigger a 4 hour cooldown. Secondly, the best part is the integration with Google search and Maps. Makes it seamless for trip planning. Lastly it's the only "SOTA" model in a long time that has actively hallucinated details. I don't know if it's because the Gemini harness is not asking it to verify information, but I've had some real Deepseek V3-like lies in responses.
Either way, I find it difficult to get invested in Gemini because nobody will have access to Carbon for a few months anyways.
No, you can't use it. You can't even see it, and I won't provide you any information. But you must trust me that I am the genius who made the best model in the whole world.
davidguetta•11m ago
bayindirh•6m ago
True, I use LLMs as glorified search engines to unearth material to read myself, but Gemini is much more useful if you decide to learn yourself. It also offers interesting expansions to your questions.
While I don't offload my work to LLMs (e.g.: Write this project, I'll be watching TV), I find them useful for closing my knowledge gap by collating information, and Google's Gemini is good at that.
Oras•5m ago
Even if these numbers are correct, they don’t have any useful product for coding or search. Not sure what you’re referring to
hmokiguess•5m ago