Gemini

32 statements across 24 episodes · 17 bullish · 7 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Dec 8, 2023 by Brit Morin · across every show →

Everything said about Gemini, oldest first

Dec 8, 2023 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Morin: Google Gemini Achieved 90% on MMLU, Beating Human Experts
“The essence of Gemini is, is this idea of multi-modality AI and the idea that it's now finally 90% Of sort of capability, and it outperforms humans. So the human percentage was, 86.4% as far as the human expert scale. Gemini is now 90%, and they call it”
Brit Morin Dec 8, 2023 ▶ 12:27 #26: Google Gemini, Meet Crypto-Cyber-Crystals · More or Less Podcast
Dec 8, 2023 negative
Assertion Supported
Jessica Lessin: Google is delayed on Gemini cloud and enterprise rollout
“We've got the next folly in the AI wars coming as Google is delayed on many other aspects of the Gemini rollout, including the cloud and enterprise stuff, which is quite important.”
Jessica Lessin Dec 8, 2023 ▶ 7:49 #26: Google Gemini, Meet Crypto-Cyber-Crystals · More or Less Podcast
Dec 22, 2023 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Jessica Lessin: AI power constraints will reshape tech more than model improvements
“Would be a lot more attention on the Power behind AI that is required, and I think that's gonna, like, reorder the AI landscape more than, like, is GPT 3.9, you know, different from Gemini 7.2, right?”
Jessica Lessin Dec 22, 2023 ▶ 1:00:10 #28: What We Got Right and Wrong in ’23 and Calls for ’24 · More or Less Podcast
Sep 13, 2024 negative
Opinion
Brit Morin: I don't trust Google's Gemini AI model "at all anymore"
“I don't even trust Gemini at all anymore.”
Brit Morin Sep 13, 2024 ▶ 30:11 #64: Meta vs. Apple: the Future of Open vs. Closed Tech · More or Less Podcast
Oct 4, 2024 bullish
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Dave Morin: NotebookLM could replace Google's Gemini UX within six months
“I mean, I think you might see in three, six months that the sort of Gemini core user experience is thrown out in favor of the notebook LM experience because it's just better for everyday consumers.”
Dave Morin Oct 4, 2024 ▶ 19:02 #67: OpenAI Sets a Record and Will Apple Make Its Next Move? · More or Less Podcast
Dec 6, 2024 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Sam Lessin: AI search collapses ad inventory by answering queries directly
“AI today, even if you're a really big bull and you think that Gemini and open AI is like better at answers is not actually going to expand inventory, right? If anything, it collapses inventory because you're doing fewer searches, right? It just gives you the a…”
Sam Lessin Dec 6, 2024 ▶ 47:33 #76: In a World with 99.99% Accurate AI… (feat. Aaron Levie) · More or Less Podcast
Dec 13, 2024 positive
Opinion
Dave Morin: Gemini Deep Research is Google's first truly impressive Gemini product
“Gemini in deep research mode is really impressive. I actually think it's the first Gemini product that they've launched that just screams Google to me. It's really impressive what it does.”
Dave Morin Dec 13, 2024 ▶ 30:52 #77: Sora Reveal, Google's AI Agents and Digital Trade Under Trump · More or Less Podcast
Dec 27, 2024 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Sam Lessin: Generative AI collapses ad inventory rather than expanding it
“AI today, even if you're a really big bull and you think that Gemini and open AI is like better at answers is not actually going to expand inventory, right? If anything, it collapses inventory because you're doing fewer searches, right? It just gives you the a…”
Sam Lessin Dec 27, 2024 ▶ 1:20:56 #79: The More or Less Holiday Special Pt. 1 (AI Highlights) · More or Less Podcast
Dec 27, 2024 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Dave Morin: Gemini deep research handles complex queries no other model can
“And I've been shocked at the kinds of queries that it can do that none of the other models can.”
Dave Morin Dec 27, 2024 ▶ 1:06:04 #79: The More or Less Holiday Special Pt. 1 (AI Highlights) · More or Less Podcast
Feb 21, 2025 positive
Opinion
Dave Morin: Gemini Is Consistently the Best LLM at Numbers
“That's been the consistent answer, actually. Gemini's best at numbers.”
Dave Morin Feb 21, 2025 ▶ 15:10 #87: SKIMS To Revive Nike? AI Drama & The Satoshi Mystery · More or Less Podcast
Apr 25, 2025
Assertion Partly supported
Jessica Lessin: Gemini has 35M daily and 350M monthly active users
“Gemini has thirty-five million daily actives. I think ChatGPT has five hundred million monthlies, and actually Gemini is three hundred and fifty million monthly, so that's not that.”
Jessica Lessin Apr 25, 2025 ▶ 13:46 Google & Meta Trials, AI’s Media Collapse & Elon’s Tesla Comeback · More or Less Podcast
May 2, 2025 neutral
Assertion Contradicted
Jessica Lessin: Gemini's Daily Active Users Are Three Quarters of ChatGPT's
“I mean, if you look at daily actives, Gemini is about three quarters of ChatGPT at the moment.”
Jessica Lessin May 2, 2025 ▶ 16:42 How OpenAI Is Beating Google and Meta at Their Own Game · More or Less Podcast
May 23, 2025 positive
Opinion
Morin: ChatGPT consistently outperforms Google Gemini on general contextual queries
“I've actually tried, I tried what you just described this week several times where I asked the same question to both. And ChatGPT always answers better in context, like in a way that makes me feel like the work is better than what Gemini answers for me. Not in…”
Dave Morin May 23, 2025 ▶ 36:22 OpenAI Teams Up with Jony Ive, Vibe Coding, Gemini, and More | More or Less #100 · More or Less Podcast
May 23, 2025 positive
Opinion
Lessin: Gemini is way better than OpenAI at coding and documentation
“I was using OpenAI for a bunch of stuff, and just, like, realized that Gemini is, like, way better at this, right? Like, in terms of, like, it's just, like, wild to me that, like, Gemini's way better. And then you're like, oh, it turns out that, like, it also …”
Sam Lessin May 23, 2025 ▶ 18:23 OpenAI Teams Up with Jony Ive, Vibe Coding, Gemini, and More | More or Less #100 · More or Less Podcast
May 23, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Lessin: Foundation AI models will not become good, sustainable businesses
“Like I've actually come out of this exercise more cynical even than I was a month ago. Right. Or even a few weeks ago that any of these are going to be good, sustainable businesses, despite the fact it's clearly going to be everywhere in the air.”
Sam Lessin May 23, 2025 ▶ 32:42 OpenAI Teams Up with Jony Ive, Vibe Coding, Gemini, and More | More or Less #100 · More or Less Podcast
Jul 4, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Morin: Google launched Offerwall to help publishers monetize lost search traffic
“Google, in an attempt to make publishers more happy because all of their traffic has dropped, especially with Gemini now rolling out on top of search results, launched a new product this week to help publishers monetize. Did you see this? It's called Offerwall…”
Brit Morin Jul 4, 2025 ▶ 11:24 #106: AI Researchers Earning More Than Cristiano Ronaldo · More or Less Podcast
Jul 25, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Sam Lessin spends heavily on AI tools, mostly using Google Gemini
“I actually spend a lot of money on AI at this point, using mostly Gemini, but some ChatGPT.”
Sam Lessin Jul 25, 2025 ▶ 36:36 #109 OpenAI vs Google: The Real Business Model War Begins · More or Less Podcast
Oct 24, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lessin: Gemini and Anthropic Are Trained on TPUs Rather Than GPUs
“If that's true, then the top two coding models Gemini and Anthropic are trained on TPUs, not GPUs. And I think that's a really big deal.”
Jessica Lessin Oct 24, 2025 ▶ 21:08 TPUs Are Winning? Gemini + Anthropic vs NVIDIA, and OpenAI’s Atlas Explained · More or Less Podcast
Nov 7, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Jessica Lessin says Apple and Google partnered for Gemini to power Siri
“Google and Apple are doing a Siri deal, so Siri is going to be powered by Gemini, essentially, until, until Apple, quote, figures it out, but it, there seems to be this pattern here of Apple realizing Google is, is pretty good at this stuff, and they'll be pre…”
Jessica Lessin Nov 7, 2025 ▶ 13:28 Apple Chooses Gemini, Sequoia's Leadership Shake-up, and Meme Coins · More or Less Podcast
Nov 28, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Brit Morin says she switched her primary daily AI to Google's Gemini
“Guys, I switched in the last two weeks. I have become primarily Gemini, not GPT.”
Brit Morin Nov 28, 2025 ▶ 35:51 OpenAI vs Google vs Meta: Business Model War · More or Less Podcast
Nov 28, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Lessin: Free Gemini creates a severe business model problem for OpenAI
“Guys, what they're selling as a computer is pretty much available for free. We can quibble on the margins, but the free version of Gemini is the number of people who are going to find the difference. So that is a big problem. That's not a little problem. That'…”
Jessica Lessin Nov 28, 2025 ▶ 57:59 OpenAI vs Google vs Meta: Business Model War · More or Less Podcast
Nov 28, 2025
Assertion Supported
Jessica Lessin: Altman warned OpenAI staff 'vibes are going to be tough'
“We published a memo week or so ago, or details from a memo, quotes from a memo in which Sam Altman, ahead of the Gemini launch, but clearly when the team had been testing it, needed to rally his troops. And he said, the vibes are going to be tough out there. O…”
Jessica Lessin Nov 28, 2025 ▶ 56:12 OpenAI vs Google vs Meta: Business Model War · More or Less Podcast
Dec 19, 2025 positive
Opinion
Dave Morin: Google was the most dramatic mover in AI execution
“Not just sentiment, also an execution. I mean, if you just look at the usage of Gemini year over year, one year later, I mean, they were the most dramatic mover.”
Dave Morin Dec 19, 2025 ▶ 13:01 Hype vs Reality: Our 2026 Predictions for Tech, Media, and Culture · More or Less Podcast
Dec 19, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Lessin: A major tech model developer will switch to Google's Gemini
“I, and then I guess I think one major company That is currently in the race to develop their own AI models will be using Gemini.”
Jessica Lessin Dec 19, 2025 ▶ 26:02 Hype vs Reality: Our 2026 Predictions for Tech, Media, and Culture · More or Less Podcast
Jan 9, 2026 neutral
Prediction Held up
Brit Morin: Gemini and Anthropic will match OpenAI's health data integration
“Gemini's gonna do this. Anthropoc's gonna do this.”
Brit Morin Jan 9, 2026 ▶ 49:21 Founders Beware: Illiquid Valuations vs. Real‑World Taxes · More or Less Podcast
Mar 20, 2026 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lessin: OpenAI is pivoting to enterprise and coding, cutting side quests
“Following the information's reporting about the code red Several months ago in terms of competing with then Gemini, they're sort of entering this another strategic review period where they're going to focus on enterprise and coding and get rid of what they cal…”
Jessica Lessin Mar 20, 2026 ▶ 38:54 Nvidia’s GTC Was “Taylor Swift for Straight Men” (Apple, OpenAI, and OpenClaw News) · More or Less Podcast
May 1, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Brit Morin predicts Google's Gemini will rise in AI rankings this year
“I think by the end of this year, Gemini is, is much higher in the rankings.”
Brit Morin May 1, 2026 ▶ 39:42 Elon Musk vs OpenAI Trial, Google Cloud Surge, Meta’s Blocked Acquisition, Anthropic Winning · More or Less Podcast
May 22, 2026 positive
Assertion Supported
Google announces over 900M active Gemini users
“I think they said they have over nine hundred million active users using Gemini.”
Brit Morin May 22, 2026 ▶ 11:26 Google I/O Just Killed SEO? Agentic Search, Universal Cart, and the New Web · More or Less Podcast
Jun 12, 2026 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Apple's Foundation Models Are Actually Distilled Google Gemini Models
“And what it looks like they've done here is just taken, you know, state of the art Gemini models, both the on-device local flavor, as well as the cloud flavors and distilled them for their own purposes into these, you know, quote, Apple foundation models. Whic…”
Dave Morin Jun 12, 2026 ▶ 6:20 Apple’s New Siri, SpaceX’s $300B IPO & the AI Company Killing Its Own Brand · More or Less Podcast
Aug 14, 2026 bullish
Assertion Supported
Stanford: Google Gemini just reached one billion users
“I mean, Gemini just hit a billion users.”
Scott Stanford Aug 14, 2026 ▶ 12:47 Special Edition MOL with Josh Wolfe, Rachel Holt, Scott Belsky, Scott Stanford, and Peter Deng. · More or Less Podcast
Sep 4, 2026 positive
Opinion
Brit Morin: GPT has caught up to Gemini in image generation
“GPT has really, like, gotten up on Gemini in terms of image generation.”
Brit Morin Sep 4, 2026 ▶ 21:53 AI Agents Are Going Rogue. Should We Be Worried? │Claude vs. Grok, Tesla vs Waymo, Google vs Canva · More or Less Podcast
Sep 4, 2026 bearish
Opinion
Brit Morin: Google is directly targeting Canva with Google Pics and Gemini
“Canva was on this like IPO darling list for so long, and now Google launched Google Pix, P-I-C-S, and without saying they're basically going after Canva, they're going after Canva, and everything is like Gemini integration, Google workspace integration, you co…”
Brit Morin Sep 4, 2026 ▶ 46:35 AI Agents Are Going Rogue. Should We Be Worried? │Claude vs. Grok, Tesla vs Waymo, Google vs Canva · More or Less Podcast
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