> As far as I know Anthropic is really the only one that's compute-bound.

I use gemini models daily. Jetbrains tells me when they are overloaded and switches to alternative (usually to openai which turns everything to shit). I'd say happens about fortnightly.

It's a good litmus and forecaster for AI demand and I wish we had more visibility.

Is gemini really better than gpt 5.5 currently? I haven't seen much sentiment along that direction.

No it's really bad