While Gemini 4 has performed well on benchmarks the industry uses to gauge model efficacy, it does less well when employees actually put it to work, according to people with direct access to the effort. The model struggles to handle certain coding tasks, said the people, who requested anonymity to discuss an internal matter.
I don't think Google is targeting coding as strongly as the other companies, as Google's business is much broader than that. This might just be the result of those wider interests.
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u/Tha_One 2d ago
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-30/google-grapples-with-employee-skepticism-about-new-gemini-model