Billions of tokens later: Gemini 4 ≈ Opus 4.8, worse at writing and agentic loops
hrishioa · x · 2026-10-14
After burning billions of tokens on data/code/analysis tasks, Hrishi concludes Gemini 4 ≈ Opus 4.8—a floor-of-capability comparison. Gemini 4 is significantly better multimodally, but weaker at agentic looping (tool call fidelity) and disappointing at writing compared to hoped-for Gemini 2.5/GPT-4.5 creativity. He caveats it's a near-launch model vs. a heavily optimized competitor. (Unverified model names; treat as credible leak/early access.)
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