Gemini Chat vs Task split: same question returns two generations of model rankings
wizardkrishna · reddit · 2026-10-20
A Reddit user found a stark split in the Gemini web app: asking Chat mode (3.8 Flash + high thinking) to rank the top 10 frontier models by cost returned badly outdated answers like Claude 3 Opus, OpenAI o1, GPT-4 Turbo and Claude 3.5 Sonnet — while the same question in Task mode returned current models like GPT-6 Astra, Fable 5.1 and Opus 5. The result reproduced on two different AI Pro accounts, raising suspicion that Google has removed thinking/web grounding from Chat mode.
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