Gemini

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27 statements across 20 episodes · 14 bullish · 12 bearish · 12 people on the record · first statement Feb 23, 2024 by David Sacks · said 244 times in 69 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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brought up most by Jason Calacanis (100), David Friedberg (34), Chamath Palihapitiya (33), David Sacks (27), Sundar Pichai (10), Demis Hassabis (9), Aaron Levie (5), Sergey Brin (4)

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Everything said about Gemini, oldest first

Feb 23, 2024 negative
Opinion
Sacks: Gemini's flaws accurately reflect the political biases of its creators
“This idea that Gemini turned out this way by accident or because they didn't, because they rushed it out. I don't really believe that. I believe that what happened is Gemini accurately reflects the biases of the people who created it.”
David Sacks Feb 23, 2024 ▶ 55:30 E167: Google's Woke AI disaster, Nvidia smashes earnings (again), Groq's LPU breakthrough & more
Feb 23, 2024 negative
Assertion Supported
Calacanis: Google's Gemini AI refused to generate images of white people
“But earlier this week, users on X started noticing that Gemini would not generate images of white people, even when prompted.”
Jason Calacanis Feb 23, 2024 ▶ 50:27 E167: Google's Woke AI disaster, Nvidia smashes earnings (again), Groq's LPU breakthrough & more
Feb 23, 2024 negative
Opinion
Sacks: Gemini's image errors reflect Google's bureaucratic corporate culture
“The ridiculous images generated by Gemini aren't an anomaly. They're a self portrait of Google's bureaucratic corporate culture.”
David Sacks Feb 23, 2024 ▶ 1:04:37 E167: Google's Woke AI disaster, Nvidia smashes earnings (again), Groq's LPU breakthrough & more
Feb 23, 2024 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Sacks: Google will not remove Gemini's bias, only make it more subtle
“Now, I think what's going to happen now is in light of this, the reaction to the rollout is, do I think they're going to get rid of the bias? No, they're going to make it more subtle. That is what I think is disturbing about it. I mean, they should have this m…”
David Sacks Feb 23, 2024 ▶ 55:45 E167: Google's Woke AI disaster, Nvidia smashes earnings (again), Groq's LPU breakthrough & more
May 17, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Sacks: Gemini answer boxes will eat the rest of Google search
“It's very clear now that Gemini powered one box is the future of Google search. People just want the answer. I think that this feature is going to eat the rest of Google search.”
David Sacks May 17, 2024 ▶ 1:31:52 GPT-4o launches, Glue demo, Ohalo breakthrough, Druck's Argentina bet, did Google kill Perplexity?
Oct 3, 2024 positive
Opinion
Cuban: Google's Gemini 1.5, NotebookLM, and Meta open source are insanely good
“Notebook is insanely good. Gemini, 1.5 is insanely good. Meta as open source and what they're doing is getting better and better.”
Mark Cuban Oct 3, 2024 ▶ 2:01:16 Mark Cuban: Love/Hate Relationship with Trump, Why He's Backing Kamala Harris
Dec 20, 2024 bullish
Insight
Levie: YouTube screen-sharing video library gives Google a browser AI advantage
“There was another release last week of experimental project for browser use by Gemini, which is another advantage because YouTube has obviously an incredible amount of screen sharing data and videos.”
Aaron Levie Dec 20, 2024 ▶ 1:31:59 DOGE kills its first bill, Zuck vs OpenAI, Google's AI comeback
Dec 20, 2024 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Calacanis: OpenAI will drop to 3rd, 4th, or 5th AI player within three years
“I think we've hit peak open AI in the market. I think they're going to be the number three or four player. I think Gemini, Meta and XAI are going to lead them. If we're sitting here in three years, I think OpenAI is number three, four or five, not one or two.”
Jason Calacanis Dec 20, 2024 ▶ 1:34:16 DOGE kills its first bill, Zuck vs OpenAI, Google's AI comeback
Feb 22, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Calacanis: Grok 3 has eclipsed Gemini, DeepSeek, Claude, and ChatGPT-4o
“Grok III has now eclipsed Gemini, which is Google's LLM, and DeepSeq from China, Quad, and ChatGPT-IVO.”
Jason Calacanis Feb 22, 2025 ▶ 1:28:14 The Stablecoin Future, Milei's Memecoin, DOGE for the DoD, Grok 3, Why Stripe Stays Private
Apr 26, 2025 bullish
Opinion
Chamath: Google's Gemini model is meaningfully better than any competitor
“It is a meaningfully better model on multiple dimensions than anything else.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Apr 26, 2025 ▶ 1:05:30 Trump Rally or Bessent Put? Elon Back at Tesla, Google's Gemini Problem, China's Thorium Discovery
May 3, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Chamath: 8090 uses Gemini for general tasks and Claude for coding
“So for many tasks at 8090, we use Gemini. It's incredible. But for most of our co-gen, we use Anthropic and Claude kicks ass. It's exceptional.”
Chamath Palihapitiya May 3, 2025 ▶ 1:25:09 Trump's First 100 Days, Tariffs Impact Trade, AI Agents, Amazon Backs Down
May 20, 2025
Disclosure
Brin: Google mostly uses custom TPUs over GPUs for Gemini
“Well, we mostly, for Gemini, we mostly use our own TPUs.”
Sergey Brin May 20, 2025 ▶ 25:41 Sergey Brin, Google Co-Founder | All-In Live from Miami
May 20, 2025 negative
Disclosure
Brin: Google internal policy briefly banned engineers from using Gemini
“Okay, I, like recently, I just had a big tiff inside the company, because we have this list of what you're allowed to use to code, and what you're not allowed to use to code, and Gemini was on the null list.”
Sergey Brin May 20, 2025 ▶ 15:16 Sergey Brin, Google Co-Founder | All-In Live from Miami
Jul 11, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Rabois predicts Google Search will lose to AI competitors like ChatGPT
“I think Google's also, Google search, cross-search, is toast. And since they have Chrome and they theoretically have a quality team in Gemini, they should be putting these two things together and hoping to compete with Chad GPT. They're going to lose the searc…”
Keith Rabois Jul 11, 2025 ▶ 49:15 Grok 4 Wows, The Bitter Lesson, Third Party, AI Browsers, SCOTUS backs POTUS on RIFs
Jul 19, 2025 bullish
Prediction Partly held up
Baker: Next-gen AI models will be trained on Blackwell GPUs
“The next models we see, you know, Grok five, you know, O five from open AI, whatever they're going to call Jim, the next Gemini. They will be trained on Blackwell, and I think that will be a really big step function.”
Gavin Baker Jul 19, 2025 ▶ 21:16 Trump vs Powell, Solving the Debt Crisis, The $10T AGI Prize, GENIUS Act Becomes Law
Aug 9, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Gavin Baker expects Google to release an impressive new Gemini model
“I would expect there to be a very, you know, an impressive new Gemini model, and we'll see how that lands relative to both Grok and GPT five.”
Gavin Baker Aug 9, 2025 ▶ 13:14 OpenAI's GPT-5 Flop, AI's Unlimited Market, China's Big Advantage, Rise in Socialism, Housing Crisis
Sep 12, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Hassabis says billions of people now interact with Google Gemini models
“So, you know, billions of people now interact with Gemini models, whether that's through AI overview, AI mode, or the Gemini app.”
Demis Hassabis Sep 12, 2025 ▶ 3:25 Inside Google DeepMind: AGI, Robotics, & World Models Explained - Demis Hassabis
Oct 24, 2025 negative
Assertion Contradicted
Friedberg claims users abandoned Google Gemini over historically inaccurate, biased outputs
“When Gemini put out saying George Washington was black, people stopped using it. They're like, this thing's a joke.”
David Friedberg Oct 24, 2025 ▶ 1:12:30 NBA Gambling Scandal, Billionaire Tax, Tesla's Future, Amazon Robots, AWS Outage, Dangerous AI Bias
Dec 6, 2025 bearish
Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2030
Calacanis: Google will make top Gemini models free for life
“They're going to make Gemini free for life for the best models. That's my prediction for Google, and I think Meta will be right behind them.”
Jason Calacanis Dec 6, 2025 ▶ 15:33 OpenAI's Code Red, Sacks vs New York Times, New Poverty Line?
Dec 6, 2025 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Friedberg: Gemini reached 15 percent AI traffic as OpenAI share dropped
“A little over a year ago, they were at 90% plus market share in generative AI traffic. And today Gemini is at 14, 15%.”
David Friedberg Dec 6, 2025 ▶ 6:08 OpenAI's Code Red, Sacks vs New York Times, New Poverty Line?
Jan 10, 2026 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Calacanis: OpenAI will continue losing market share to Google and xAI
“And for my contrarian, I was thinking about going with OpenAI losing their lead and not being the number one company again, because I do think that will be the trend that they will have the, they'll continue to give up Their market share to other players, incl…”
Jason Calacanis Jan 10, 2026 ▶ 1:02:14 All-In's 2026 Predictions
Jan 25, 2026 bullish
What-if
Lockmiller: Competitors would quickly absorb compute capacity if OpenAI failed
“Imagine, imagine they did go out of business. The reason they'd go out of business is because some other model company, whether it be, you know, Anthropic or Gemini or Grok, like really blew them out of the water. But if that were to happen, the group that mas…”
Chase Lochmiller Jan 25, 2026 ▶ 2:01:42 The Future of Everything: What CEOs of Circle, CrowdStrike & More See Coming in 2026
Mar 23, 2026 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Calacanis: Local open-source models deliver about 80% of frontier performance for free
“I have started running Kimmy 2.5 on a Mac studio. It's not as good as Claude or Gemini or Grok, but you can probably do about 80% there for free.”
Jason Calacanis Mar 23, 2026 ▶ 38:54 Four CEOs on the Future of AI: CoreWeave, Perplexity, Mistral, and IREN
Apr 17, 2026 bullish
Disclosure
Friedberg says his companies shifted to 90 percent Anthropic AI models
“If I look back six months ago, I think we were pretty heavy on cursor. And Gemini, and now I think we're probably 90% anthropic in just the last six months at my organization.”
David Friedberg Apr 17, 2026 ▶ 19:08 OpenAI's Identity Crisis, Datacenter Wars, Market Up on Iran News, Mamdani's First Tax, Swalwell Out
Jun 9, 2026 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Maris: Google slashing Gemini prices by 80% would crush AI competitors
“Well, if you're a company, and you can go to Google and Gemini, and you can pay 80% less for that Basically identical product. Why wouldn't you do that? And then the compression and the pressure on those other businesses goes super critical.”
Bill Maris Jun 9, 2026 ▶ 15:01 Bill Maris: How Google Could Crush AI Competitors, Why Small Funds Win, and AI's Atari Stage
Aug 7, 2026 bullish
Assertion Partly supported
Calacanis: Gemini surpassed 950 million MAUs in Q2
“In Q two, Gemini had over 950 monthly active users tripling year over year.”
Jason Calacanis Aug 7, 2026 ▶ 13:34 Google’s AI Brain Drain, SpaceX's Huge Quarter, Airtable’s 90% Collapse, US Data Fuels China AI
Aug 7, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Calacanis: Google will lead in consumer AI usage by far this year
“They will be the number one AI company in terms of consumer usage by far, I think, this year.”
Jason Calacanis Aug 7, 2026 ▶ 13:40 Google’s AI Brain Drain, SpaceX's Huge Quarter, Airtable’s 90% Collapse, US Data Fuels China AI
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