I wonder when/if we’ll see Gemini beating Fable and Astra. Last year I would have confidently bet Google will overtake the others just because they have the data, the hardware (TPUs) and a fat advertising money pipe and yet they are still behind. Anyone anonymous at Google want to hint when Gemini 4 will be out?
As an "everyday mans AI" I'd say 3.8 Flash definitely already has. Smart enough for the vast swath of people, and only slightly eeked out by Astra(Max) on vision capabilities, like the kind of "Point your camera at something and ask questions" that non-tech people like to do. It's crazy fast and very compute light, so not getting bogged down constantly.
I can't think of a better general purpose model than 3.8 flash right now. It also writes more naturally than the other big models too.
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I can't think of a better general purpose model than 3.8 flash right now. It also writes more naturally than the other big models too.
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People use text with LLMs but it's great to have a high fidelity "analyze this image"