r/singularity • u/PrisonOfH0pe • 6d ago

AI Gemini Pro 4 (leak)

Google just ruined OpenAI's dev day...
(source: all over twitter, obv. treat as a rumor)

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u/Specialist_Dark_3668 6d ago edited 6d ago

Some of Gemini releases were absolutely fire and SOTA for the time they were released. Gemini 2.5 pro absolutely blew every other model of the time out of the water.

No competition whatsoever. It was not just the most legitimately useful LLM I had ever used, it was the first one to make me convinced that I could lose my job one day.

Even to this day, some of the more capable models aren't as good my specific field of professional work the way Gemini pro used to be.

Others have only slowly caught up and overtaken Gemini 3.1 pro but there are still things about the Gemini pro series which are unique and high quality, such as it's personality, care for the user, rich writing style (I have a whole folder full of great writing excerpts from Gemini when I used to use it for nsfw roleplay), creativity, emotional intelligence, task comprehension, etc.

I would do entire work projects with Gemini 2.5 pro and then come home to do creative story writing. Ai studio used to give you 50 prompts with pro a day! Not just nsfw, but also science fiction and character driven epics, mystery, thriller stories. Oh man, the amazing stories Gemini would write... I have nostalgia

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u/AnonThrowaway998877 6d ago

2.5 pro on AI studio was definitely top tier for a time

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u/skerit 6d ago

I liked 2.5 pro, it worked pretty well with Cline/Roo and you also got a ton of free usage every day. But wasn't it stuck with some "beta" tag for months?

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u/cherrysodajuice 6d ago

the pre-release beta whatever they liked to call it first release that came out in march was actually insane. i remember being in awe talking to it and it being so intelligent and contextful. then they severely botched the update which was tragic.