> I felt Demis Hassabis was trustworthy in a way Sam Altman couldn't be—a true scientist, not a businessman
Not that I think Demis is or is not trustworthy, but I think it’s a bit foolish to believe it would be allowed to matter.
Google is winning on every AI front
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Re: Google is winning on every AI front
#42It isn't when considering Google's brand has (long) lost trust in how it hanles data. This is especially true with larger companies, F500 type brands, who tend to avoid Google for infra as do governments.
F500/government are conservative and tend to stick with the vendors they know, which is why Azure has gained so much traction despite being worse than AWS & GCP pretty much across the board. Trust in handling data doesn't really come into this; if anything Google has a very strong reputation for security.
Tell that to UniSuper:
https://www.business-standard.com/world-news/google-cloud-ac...
Re: Google is winning on every AI front
#43I was a loyal Claude user until I decided to try Gemini 2.5. "After all", I thought, "I already use a Pixel phone, so it's integrated with Android. And with Google Drive. And I can get it through my Google One subscription." And now that I'm on it, I don't think I'm going back. Google did it again.
Just to add, I am mainly an iPhone user. But I have a Google Pixel 6a for dev and testing reasons. And Google Gemini for the voice assistant is excellent fun! Just being able to ask it weird and wonderful whilst on a road trip with the kids is worth the cost of a cheap Pixel phone alone!
I have to seriously disagree on it for the "assistant" part. It is so terrible vs Google assistant.
There have been two really bad experiences that I had which boggled my mind.
These are transcribed because these were so bad I took a screenshot.
Example 1: "set an alarm for 15 minutes"
> Gemini sets the alarm for 1:15pm
"I want that to be 50 minutes"
> "you can change the duration of alarms in the clock app"
Example 2:
"what the temperature today"
> It is currently 5 degrees Celsius
- It was October in Sydney, the temperature was 22c with a low of 12c.....
Re: Google is winning on every AI front
#44Gemini 2.5 pro is as powerful as everybody says. I still also use Claude Sonnet 3.7 only because the Gemini web UI has issues... (Imagine creating the best AI and then not allowing to attach Python or C files if not renamed .txt) but the way the model is better than anyone else is a "that's another league" experience. They have the biggest search engine and YouTube to leverage the power of the AI they are developing.…
Instead of renaming files to .txt, you should try Gemini 2.5 pro through OpenRouter with roo, Cline or using Github Copilot. I've been testing GH Copilot [0] and it's been working really well.
0: https://github.blog/changelog/2025-04-11-copilot-chat-users-...
Re: Google is winning on every AI front
#45No it's not obvious at all Google is winning AI on every front.
There is few stuff Google is systemically behind:
1) UX
2) product and use case innovation
I just open Google Gemini Android app and asked to generate a JS script with Gemini 2 Flash and did the same with ChatGPT.
Gemini did not highlighted with colors the code. ChatGPT did highlighted with colors the code.
Colors in code are extremely useful to grok the code and have a nice DX.
I'm sure if I dig into Gemini's product I'll find dozens of UX/DX ways in which ChatGPT is better.
Google is still playing catch-up with LLM products. ChatGPT is still the one making the announcements and then Gemini doing the same UX/use case enhancements weeks/months later.
Re: Google is winning on every AI front
#46It isn't when considering Google's brand has (long) lost trust in how it hanles data. This is especially true with larger companies, F500 type brands, who tend to avoid Google for infra as do governments.
F500/government are conservative and tend to stick with the vendors they know, which is why Azure has gained so much traction despite being worse than AWS & GCP pretty much across the board. Trust in handling data doesn't really come into this; if anything Google has a very strong reputation for security.
> F500/government are conservative and tend to stick with the vendors they know, which is why Azure has gained so much traction
Outcome is the same, but being "conservative" isn't the real reason.
Adding a vendor requires compliance work, process, finance etc that it's just effort.
99% of medium-large companies use Microsoft in some form so Azure can skip all of that to some extent.
Re: Google is winning on every AI front
#47+1 gemini flash is very good models. very cheap, very fast, pretty smart. API integration (if you are inside GCP) is convenient. API is good (gRPC, encoding, OpenAI API style). newest AI notebook studio UI thing also works as you would expect it. well done.
Re: Google is winning on every AI front
#48As an Ex-OpenAI employee I agree with this. Most of the top ML talent at OpenAI already have left to either do their own thing or join other startups. A few are still there but I doubt if they'll be around in a year. The main successful product from OpenAI is the ChatGPT app, but there's a limit on how much you can charge people for subscription fees. I think soon people expect this service to be provided for free an…
> (And don't let me get started with Sam Altman.) Please do.
I would like to know how he manages to appear, in every single photo I see of him, to look slightly but unmistakenly... moist, or at least sweaty.
Re: Google is winning on every AI front
#49No it's not obvious at all Google is winning AI on every front. There is few stuff Google is systemically behind: 1) UX 2) product and use case innovation I just open Google Gemini Android app and asked to generate a JS script with Gemini 2 Flash and did the same with ChatGPT. Gemini did not highlighted with colors the code. ChatGPT did highlighted with colors the code. Colors in code are extremely useful to grok the…
>Gemini did not highlighted with colors the code. ChatGPT did highlighted with colors the code.
I don't care if the code is highlighted nearly as much as I care if it's right.
This kind of stuff is nice-to-have but the quality of the underlying LLM is what really matters.
Re: Google is winning on every AI front
#50Gemini 2.5 pro is as powerful as everybody says. I still also use Claude Sonnet 3.7 only because the Gemini web UI has issues... (Imagine creating the best AI and then not allowing to attach Python or C files if not renamed .txt) but the way the model is better than anyone else is a "that's another league" experience. They have the biggest search engine and YouTube to leverage the power of the AI they are developing.…
apart from those weird file attach issues I actually think they've got a much better UI than anthropic as well - much much snappier even with extremely long chats (in addition to much higher limits obviously, totally different league). I love using it