Writing my latest guide on what AI to use made it really clear how confusing the Google AI situation is. Great models with radically different harnesses in different apps. Great AI products, mixed in with some bad ones. None of which seem to clearly connect or interact together.

I think they are figuring it out, but there are standouts that no one else seems to have an equivalent to: Google AI Studio is the best API testing tool of the AI Labs, NotebookLM is the only app in its category (& very good), AI Mode for Google search, etc. But all scattered.