Is anyone seriously using Gemini daily? How is it compared to other agents you've tried? Do you feel it's a good value prop? What does it excel/fail at?
I will say the video with Gemini live is pretty impressive. My family and I tried it a bit yesterday, and my kids wanted to show Gemini all our pets. My kid showed it our cat, picking it up roughly as she is wont to do, and I was impressed when it asked "Is [name of cat] always so patient being handled like that?"
I'm on a ChatGPT pro plan, been using it for a good while but got an offer on Google One storage so tried it out for a month. Google's models are far behind compared to OpenAI's, and seemingly o1 Pro Mode is still the best out there, albeit slow obviously. But probably the model I've got furthest with on difficult problems, and even the "simpler" models from OpenAI are still better than Gemma 2.5.
It does seem that Google has better tooling available for their models though, so a combination of the tooling of Google with the models of OpenAI would probably be optimal, but unlikely we'll see that happen.
Image search and text recognition have become way better than Google Lens ever was. In-place translation is also nice, and I use to check idioms, and other grammarly-esque things.
I think it's good at language related things and transformations, not great at anything else (I wouldn't ask it to create anything new TBH). I can't even get it reliably spun Google docs from my prompts from the standard web/app interfaces.
Similar to FactolSarin, it's baked into my Google account and subscriptions so I don't really need it to be stellar and wouldn't pay for it as a single product.
For more general things, ChatGPT is still better imo, but that gap is shrinking, at least for what I do. Their analysis plugin is super useful to me.
I will say that it’s hard to evaluate as some of my habits may drive behavior.