Increasingly, the big labs need their apps to come with good models and good harnesses. The most common app is the chatbot. The Big 3 all have good models and good chatbot apps, but Gemini lacks a good harness. IDEs/CLIs are the new battleground, Knowledge work apps are next.
Nathan Lambert
Nathan Lambert18 hours ago
Gemini not being in the conversation at all with Claude Code and Codex is the real “code red” emergency.
On the knowledge work side, Google has the lead in NotebookLM, excellent app and the only Gemini product with a full harness that uses all the many Gemini capabilities (but a reality narrow set of uses). Claude for Excel is also good, but narrow. Cowork is an early general app.
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