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Gemini

Google's chat assistant, built to hold very long documents at once

Runs in a browser, on phones and inside Google's own products. Context length is the selling point: paste in a long report or a whole code base and ask it to find the one line that matters. There is a free tier and paid plans for the larger models. It invents facts, the same as every assistant of this kind.

Who backs it

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  • Lex FridmanDoes it

    AI researcher · Lex Fridman Podcast

    Gemini is the interface he prefers, though he allows that this might just be momentum. Its retrieval over long context won him over, so he reaches for it when a prompt carries a lot of material and every part of it has to be tracked.

    Source: Lex Fridman Podcast: State of AI in 2026 transcript
  • Naval RavikantDoes it

    Angel investor · AngelList and the Naval podcast

    Search questions go to Gemini. He calls the product frustrating, timing out on the app and losing the plot, but rates the data underneath: the Google crawl plus YouTube. It is not the best model in his view, just the one sitting on the best index.

    Source: nav.al: A Return to Code

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