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Re: Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed

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At this point in time I start to believe OAI is very much behind on the models race and it can't be reversed Image model they have released is much worse than nano banana pro, ghibli moment did not happen Their GPT 5.2 is obviously overfit on benchmarks as a consensus of many developers and friends I know. So Opus 4.5 is staying on top when it comes to coding The weight of the ads money from google and general direct…

Is there anything pointing to Brin having anything to do with Google’s turnaround in AI? I hear a lot of people saying this, but no one explaining why they do

If he's having an impact it's because he can break through the bureaucracy. He's not trying to protect a fiefdom.

Re: Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed

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"minimal" is a bit weird. > Matches the “no thinking” setting for most queries. The model may think very minimally for complex coding tasks. Minimizes latency for chat or high throughput applications. I'd prefer a hard "no thinking" rule than what this is.

It still supports the legacy mode of setting the budget, you can set it to 0 and it would be equivalent to none reasoning effort like gpt 5.1/5.2

I can confirm this is the case via the API, but annoyingly AI Studio doesn't let you do so.

Re: Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed

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“And then imagine Google designing silicon that doesn’t trail the industry. While you are there we may as well start to imagine Google figures out how to support a product lifecycle that isn’t AdSense” Google is great on the data science alone, every thing else is an after thought

https://blog.google/products/google-cloud/ironwood-google-tp... "And then imagine Google designing silicon that doesn’t trail the industry." I'm def not a Google stan generally, but uh, have you even been paying attention? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_Processing_Unit

It's not funny when I have to explain the joke.

Re: Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed

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post #125

At this point in time I start to believe OAI is very much behind on the models race and it can't be reversed Image model they have released is much worse than nano banana pro, ghibli moment did not happen Their GPT 5.2 is obviously overfit on benchmarks as a consensus of many developers and friends I know. So Opus 4.5 is staying on top when it comes to coding The weight of the ads money from google and general direct…

> I start to believe OAI is very much behind

Kara Swisher recently compared OpenAI to Netscape.

Re: Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed

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OAI's latest image model outperforms Google's in LMArena in both image generation and image editing. So even though some people may prefer nano banana pro in their own anecdotal tests, the average person prefers GPT image 1.5 in blind evaluations. https://lmarena.ai/leaderboard/text-to-image https://lmarena.ai/leaderboard/image-edit

Add This to Gemini distribution which is being adcertised by Google in all of their products, and average Joe will pick the sneakers at the shelf near the checkout rather than healthier option in the back

Those darn sneakers are just too delicious!

Re: Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed

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post #169

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OAI's latest image model outperforms Google's in LMArena in both image generation and image editing. So even though some people may prefer nano banana pro in their own anecdotal tests, the average person prefers GPT image 1.5 in blind evaluations. https://lmarena.ai/leaderboard/text-to-image https://lmarena.ai/leaderboard/image-edit

Add This to Gemini distribution which is being adcertised by Google in all of their products, and average Joe will pick the sneakers at the shelf near the checkout rather than healthier option in the back

...and what does this have to do with the comment you replied to? Did you reply to the wrong person or you were just stating unrelated factoids?

Re: Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed

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Is there a "good enough" endgame for LLMs and AI where benchmarks stop mattering because end users don't notice or care? In such a scenario brand would matter more than the best tech, and OpenAI is way out in front in brand recognition.

For average consumers, I think very much yes, and this is where OpenAI's brand recognition shines. But for anyone using LLM's to help speed up academic literature reviews where every detail matters, or coding where every detail matters, or anything technical where every detail matters -- the differences very much matter. And benchmarks serve just to confirm your personal experience anyways, as the differences between…

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Re: Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed

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post #125

At this point in time I start to believe OAI is very much behind on the models race and it can't be reversed Image model they have released is much worse than nano banana pro, ghibli moment did not happen Their GPT 5.2 is obviously overfit on benchmarks as a consensus of many developers and friends I know. So Opus 4.5 is staying on top when it comes to coding The weight of the ads money from google and general direct…

This is obviously trained on Pro 3 outputs for benchmaxxing.

> for benchmaxxing.

Out of all the big4 labs, google is the last I'd suspect of benchmaxxing. Their models have generally underbenched and overdelivered in real world tasks, for me, ever since 2.5 pro came out.

Re: Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed

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post #125

At this point in time I start to believe OAI is very much behind on the models race and it can't be reversed Image model they have released is much worse than nano banana pro, ghibli moment did not happen Their GPT 5.2 is obviously overfit on benchmarks as a consensus of many developers and friends I know. So Opus 4.5 is staying on top when it comes to coding The weight of the ads money from google and general direct…

That's a quite sensationalized view. Ghibli moment was only about half a year ago. At that moment, OpenAI was so far ahead in terms of image editing. Now it's behind for a few months and "it can't be reversed"?

The Ghibli moment was an influencer fad not real advancement.

Re: Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed

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post #125

At this point in time I start to believe OAI is very much behind on the models race and it can't be reversed Image model they have released is much worse than nano banana pro, ghibli moment did not happen Their GPT 5.2 is obviously overfit on benchmarks as a consensus of many developers and friends I know. So Opus 4.5 is staying on top when it comes to coding The weight of the ads money from google and general direct…

Google has incredible tech. The problem is and always has been their products. Not only are they generally designed to be anti-consumer, but they go out of their way to make it as hard as possible. The debacle with Antigravity exfiltrating data is just one of countless.
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