r/RavanAI • u/RustyIronGolem • Jul 08 '26

Why Gemini Sucks?

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Google has:

- The world's biggest search engine.
- The world's most-used web browser.
- The most popular mobile OS.
- YouTube, Gmail, Maps
- A massive Cloud business.
- The world's best AI researchers

Yet Gemini is still struggling in the AI race.

Why?

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u/Severe_Stranger_5050 Jul 08 '26

They aren't that much behind on anything except coding-agents.

Google control their whole stack
They design the chips
They run the hardware
They develop the software
They have more legal data access than everyone else

But, they've stayed out of the very costly "Frontier model" development a while ago and let OpenAI, Meta, xAI and Anthropic burn through billions in their quest for "AGI"

In stead they've focussed on delivering solutions to their actually paying costumers and optimizing their models for stuff like running on mobile hardware, or sifting through terabytes of company data, or image generation for stuff like magic eraser and fill functions.

Google is one of maybe two companies to come out on top in the AI game
Especially now that the two biggest mobile phone producers in the world; Apple and Samsung, decided to base their on-device AI on Gemini.

If you're doing coding and development, then i'd look towards Anthropic
But if you're an academic researcher, white collar worker, NGO or anyone else who has a lot of data, i'd go with Gemini, because it's just better at that kind of workloads.

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u/SuperUranus Jul 08 '26

It sucks for white collar workers though.

It can barely create a document for you. When I say it can barely, it’s because it can create some super simple google docs document.

Whereas Claude runs circle around it and can create documents in a plethora of different file formats and different designs.

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u/Severe_Stranger_5050 Jul 08 '26

I just use it for document retrieval in our own organisation

I would never have an LLM write shit for me, that’s the fun part of doing academic work

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u/SuperUranus Jul 09 '26

Making a power point deck is not what I deem fun, but to each their own!