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Cramer: OpenAI Has No Real Edge Over Competitors
“I don't think so, because they really don't have any real edge. You love your chat CPT. I love my Gemini.”
Hubinger: Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT were willing to blackmail a CEO
“And we found that you know, a lot of models, you know Claude models, Gemini models, ChachiPT models would all be willing to take this blackmail action in at least some situations which is kind of concerning you know, and does show that they're acting on this s…”
Anthropic Leads in Agentic Coding While OpenAI Lags Behind
“They've been able to make, create a lead that hasn't been bridged by the other labs. Gemini is getting there on the agentic stuff, but I would say OpenAI kind of lagged behind.”
Newton: Google's AI models are trained to 'teach to the test'
“Well, I have a conspiracy theory, which is you know kind of not great to be sharing on a podcast, but I'm gonna do it anyway, which is, I think Google is teaching to the test. You know what I mean? Yes. Like, I think that they know what the benchmarks are, and…”
Roy: Google Gemini will monetize via ads, but Anthropic will avoid them
“At least anthropic is not, I mean, I don't think they're going in that direction at all. Google and Gemini, Obviously, 100% will”
Siegler: Tying Gemini's crawler to Search gives Google massive content negotiation leverage
“Google's crawler is also tied to Google search. And so if you're turning off the crawler for Gemini you're potentially turning off Google search, which basically no one is willing to do at this point. And gives Google, you know, a huge leverage point. In, in a…”
Kantrowitz: OpenAI Averaged 905M WAU, Missing 1B Year-End Target
“OpenAI's weekly active users for the quarter averaged about nine hundred five million users. Although the company hit about nine hundred twenty million weekly active users in February, the lower average figure for the quarter implies that usage during the rest…”
Shevelenko: Codex and proprietary AI assistants will never run rival models
“So the one thing that Codex is never going to be able to support is running Gemini models. You know, they will always be in the GPT family. Same thing for, you know, Claude, like they're not gonna, you know, have GPT models. Gemini is not gonna have Grok model…”
Alex Kantrowitz cites Apptopia data showing consumer AI app growth declining
“Daily active user growth across all AI, AI apps. So that includes perplexity and Claude and the Gemini's of the world. ChatGPT, growth is not just tailing off, it's down. So you can see that, you know, while like the space is growing overall the growth is, is …”
Kantrowitz: Cook failed to build an in-house AI culture at Apple
“Then he will be seen as the person who was so myopically focused on what they did well that he failed to create a culture, because we know the culture is not ready to build AI, failed to create a culture that could do this in house. And I think that's evidence…”
Yen: Gemini supercharges Google's surveillance model far beyond traditional search
“If you use Gemini instead of Google search, It is really supercharging Google's ability to understand who you are, and it knows a lot more than if you were just using a search product. So it's, you could think of it as Google's business model, but now on stero…”
Foundation AI labs face constraints, creating massive gaps for independent startups
“These labs have so many resources, but they are still constrained. They're constrained on, like, compute. They're constrained on inference. They're constrained on people. Every second building, like, a new creative model is a second they could have spent on a …”
Kantrowitz: Perplexity AI Is Done Against Google Gemini and ChatGPT
“I think it's done. I mean, I don't see how it really serves a purpose outside of you know, Different than what you could do with Gemini or Chachi.”
Bret Taylor: Personal AI agents will be the internet's front door
“I think ChatGPT is already the front door for the internet for many people, and I would say, if you look at, like, ChatGPT, Gemini, and the like, I think your personal AI agent will be your front door to the internet.”
Roy: OpenAI will hit 1B users in 2026 but lose clear leadership
“I think a billion users. I don't think I think they're not the leader. I think Gemini's Google definitely starts to catch up. I think like everyone is biting off at different parts of the open AI. Empire, I guess if we call it that, but I don't think there's a…”
Luria: The AI chatbot market is not winner-take-all
“Unlike Uber and the rideshare market, which lent itself to winner takes most or winner takes all, chat is entirely not like that. Because I could have the same conversation with Gemini, and Meta is going to give me the tools to do this, and Grok is going to gi…”
Prince: Google uses a single crawler for search, ads, and Gemini
“Google's crawler does five different things, at least. One is it checks if you have an ad on a page. It makes sure that if you're putting an ad for Procter & Gamble, Procter & Gamble product up, it's not against a pornographic site or something like that. So i…”
Brin: Google fully intends Gemini to be the first AGI
“We fully intend that Gemini will be the very first AGI, clarify that.”
Garman: AWS is open to hosting OpenAI and Google Gemini models
“We're always open to having OpenAI be available in AWS someday, or having Gemini models be available in AWS someday, and maybe someday we will spend more time focused on our own models, for sure.”
Roy: Google will put ads in Gemini; Anthropic will not
“At least anthropic is not. I mean, I don't think they're going in that direction at all. Google and Gemini. Obviously, 100% will.”
Siegler: Google's Disparate Teams Slow Its AI Super-App Development
“It's basically Google's immense size and capabilities become a hindrance in, in the building out of this, right? Because like, imagine that they feel like they have to answer for open AI super app comes, chat GPT super app coming out. And it has, you know, fro…”
Roy: Google feels more AI-native than Microsoft despite flawed Gmail integration
“Certainly Google has a more AI native feel the way even ask questions in maps. Even again, we've talked about this at length that Gemini and Gmail still kind of sucks, but like they still feel more AI native than Microsoft.”
Google successfully funneled its core users to standalone consumer Gemini app
“I mean, based on Gemini's numbers in the consumer market, they've shown you can do that.”
Cuban: Business leaders who avoid using LLMs are falling behind
“I think, you know, if you're not using one of the large language models, whether it's Claude, my favorite, ChatGPT, Grok Gemini, you know, from a business perspective, since this is a business and student audience, you're falling way behind. That if you don't …”
Kantrowitz: Gemini and Claude were trained on TPUs and Trainium, not NVIDIA
“If you look at the TPU, which is the accelerator that Google has been, has put out and Tranium, which is Amazon's version of it you know, two of the top three models in the world, Claude and Gemini were trained on it”
Sorkin: AI presents Google's best chance to take share from Apple
“I would imagine that this should be the greatest opportunity for Google and Alphabet Effect or Alphabet to truly take share because Gemini, if built the way I think it should be built, should be able to move you around their phone in shocking ways, right? It s…”
ChatGPT leads Gemini web traffic by 3x and Claude by 30x
“If you look at the gap between them and the number two Gemini on web, it's about still two and a half, three X. The gap between them and something like a Claude is closer to, like, 30 X. So even though a lot of these other apps are getting more attention, Chat…”
Levie: OpenAI, Anthropic, and Gemini will grow inference 100x in 5 years
“In five years from now, both, they will be, you know, a hundred times bigger in inference. Anthropic will be a hundred times bigger in inference. Gemini will be a hundred times bigger in inference and so on.”
Ramaswamy: Capability gap between top three AI labs and competitors is staggering
“I think the gap between the truly great model makers of the present era, like OpenAI, the Anthropic, and Gemini very much in that mix, And everyone else is quite staggering”
Kantrowitz: ChatGPT Mobile Market Share Fell to 45.3% in January 2026
“OpenAI's, ChatGPT's market share has dropped from 69% in January, this is according to Apptopia, from 69% in January, twenty-twenty-five to 45.3% in January, 26. Now it is growing, but in that same time, ah, let's see, Gemini has gone from 14.7% chatbot market…”
Hassabis: Google Has No Immediate Plans for Ads in Gemini
“He said we have no plan at no plans at the moment to do ads. If you're talking about the Gemini app specifically, I think we're obviously going to watch very carefully the outcome of what ChatGPT is saying they're going to do. I think that has to be handled ve…”
Roy: Gemini will supplant many ChatGPT users and prevent their churn
“I think Gemini is going to supplant like standalone Gemini, a lot of ChatGPT users and prevent them from ever going there.”
Kantrowitz: Perplexity's functionality will be swallowed by Gemini and ChatGPT
“I'm much less bullish on perplexity than I was. I just think that like their functionality is just going to be swallowed up by the Geminis and the chat GPTs of the world.”
Cramer: Google Gemini is superior to ChatGPT
“And Gemini's so great. It takes a little time. It's a little, puts a little more thought into it, and isn't cheeky.”
Roy: Pixel's system-level Gemini integration is vastly superior to Siri
“Having Gemini integrated into the like system layer of the phone is so different Than trying to use Siri.”
Siegler: Gemini's Chrome beta integration is slow and feels un-native
“That integration is not good. It's like very slow. It's also in the upper right-hand corner, but it's not, it doesn't feel native. It just feels like sort of a popover type situation.”
Roy: Anthropic's Coding Pivot Is a Bad Move Against Entrenched Rivals
“So I think it's like, it's the easy way out. And I think they're taking the easy way out. And I think it's gonna be very bad for them because Then you're competing against Cursor, Replit, ChatGPT, Gemini, like every other like either coding first services that…”
Newton: Gemini is clearly the worst among ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini
“The three big models that I use and pay for every single week, some of them every day, some of them many times a day, are ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. Of those, I would say Gemini has clearly been the worst.”
Benioff: Consumer AI models like ChatGPT and Gemini are commodity products
“They're kind of commodities at this point. You know, Google has Gemini, there's ChatGPT, there's u.com, there's Perplexity, there's Copilot, there's all these things, you know, they're just on your phone, you're just talking to the, basically the same data set…”
Claude 3 and Gemini are not significantly better than GPT-4
“So we've gotten Claude III, we've gotten Gemini. They're not significantly better, if at all, than GPT-IV, and certainly not the newer version of GPT-IV.”
Clark: US and UK AI Safety Institutes Are Testing Frontier AI Systems
“The US and UK are not, don't have regulatory powers. Will they be third parties that test out systems like Claude or ChatGPT or Gemini for national security risks and hold companies accountable to them? Yes. Like I'm in discussion with them today.”
Google Gemini benchmark metrics caused significant confusion
“Certainly there's been a lot of confusion around the metrics, but I'm sure Google will do great work.”
Kantrowitz predicts major AI models will succeed, except for xAI's Grok
“I think all of the models on the screen, with the exception of Grok, are gonna have a chance of really making some waves.”
Kantrowitz: Google's Gemini is available to military personnel on genai.mil
“There's a website, genai.mil, that's available to the people in the military here, and interestingly, Google, ah, is in there. Gemini's in there.”
Ibrahim: Hassabis greenlit infusing learning science into Gemini when model matured
“Over the past few years, we've been doing a lot of work around one science area, learning science. How do people learn and can we improve it? And then this year was really, Dennis was like, okay, Gemini is good enough. It's time to infuse Everything we've done…”
Kantrowitz: Gemini chatbot web visits surged 647% while OpenAI grew 50%
“It's grown in 50% web visits January, 20, 25 to January, 20, 26. But the lead is shrinking and Google has, for instance, grown its web visits by not 50% like open AI, but 647%. In the same time period.”
DeepMind Plans to Converge All Modalities Into One Unified Gemini Model
“Why this is why we worked with Gemini as being multimodal from the beginning, able to deal with, you know, video, image and eventually converge that all into one model, that's our plan, is that it'll be very useful for a universal assistant as well.”