> I suspect it's people who have not yet used the paid models from OpenAI and Anthropic. Gemini is comparable to free models from other providers, but not in the same universe as paid models.
I totally disagree. I pay for both ChatGPT and Anthropic (haven't tried the chinese models yet) and yet Gemini is my go-to model (and I pay for it too through Google Workspace subscriptions for several domain names tied to Google/GMail) for anything that is not coding.
I find Gemini better/quicker/more polished for basically every single subject out there that is not "write me lines of code".
Same here.
I use gemini for everything not-coding, from doing research, to have custom personas for more niche topics (and feeding more detailed knowledge in these cases).
For coding and image editing, right now I find ChatGPT superior. And for software architecture designs or planning Claude is the best since a while. I still have to try Grok to be fair.
To be fair, it has been about six months since I tried a paid Google model. I will give it another go to compare. Hallucinations were the main issue back then but perhaps it has come a long way.
Much respect for being able to admit that you haven’t used a model in a while after saying folks probably haven’t used the models you use.