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Gemini
Gemini's edge is two things: a 1M-token context window that swallows entire codebases or hour-long videos, and the native Google Workspace tie-in so it can read and write across Gmail, Docs, Drive, and Calendar. The 2.5 Pro model is genuinely competitive on reasoning; the 2.5 Flash variant is the cheap workhorse for high-volume jobs. If your company already lives in Google Workspace, Gemini removes friction the others can't match.

What it's good for
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Summarising long meetings or a week of emails directly inside Gmail / Meet
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Analysing video — drop a 60-minute recording in and ask "where did we discuss pricing"
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Codebase-scale analysis: paste 500K tokens of source and ask architectural questions
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Drafting docs and slides inside Google Docs / Slides without copy-paste
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Multimodal pipelines via the Gemini API where you need video + image + text in a single call
How to use it
For Workspace-heavy teams, turn on Gemini in Gmail/Docs and let it draft replies, summarise threads, and pull info across files in your Drive. For long-context work, paste or upload the full source — Gemini's 1M window means you rarely need to chunk. The free tier of gemini.google.com is now a reasonable daily driver; AI Studio (aistudio.google.com) is where you go to test API prompts before wiring it into production.
Alternatives to Gemini
Other tools we'd consider for the same job.
ChatGPT
OpenAI's assistant. Deep tool integration, Advanced Voice, image generation, and the default for most first-time AI users
Claude
Anthropic's conversational AI — strong at careful reasoning, long documents, and writing that reads like a human wrote it
Grok
xAI's frontier chat assistant with real-time X and web search, a DeepSearch research mode, and a strong reasoning tier
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