It has already become irrelevant to anyone paying attention. Raw scores at published benchmarks mean next to nothing in modern use. They are either gamed to hell or unsolved to the point where differences can be explained by randomness. Speed, cost per token, tokens per task and hallucination levels are the useful axes you can compare along these days if you're not doing scientific frontier level research.

They probably prefer being used by the deep-pocketed organizations that have access to Gemini 4 Carbon even if it means losing the entire rest of the market.

I was promoting Google models (more like Google ecosystem) for what Google was doing with their models. Making it accessible to non-technical people (which is what I am doing).

e.g. NotebookLLM was one that got me interested in Google's ecosystem. It was easy to use and explain even to my parents.

Now, their models (and NoteBookLLM merging to Gemini, making it extremely hard for non-tech people and other stuff) release very slowly, their models lie their ass off, very politically skewed, etc.

Not to mention blocking API usage with subs.

I never use any google models for any agent work any more, in case they block me.

Started migrating gdrive, and gmail to other providers at this point after horror stories in HN, that they lost access to their gmails, etc.

How the fuck can something that was announced less than a day ago be "vaporware".