Gemini 2.5 Pro vs. Claude 3.7 Sonnet: Coding Comparison

The loser in the AI model competition appears to be... Microsoft.

When ChatGPT was the only game in town Microsoft was seen as a leader, thanks to their wise investment in Open AI. They relied on Open AI's model and didn't develop their own. As a result Microsoft has no interesting AI products. Copilot is a flop. Bing failed to take advantage of AI, Perplexity ate their lunch.

Satya Nadella last year: “Google should have been the default winner in the world of big tech’s AI race”.

Sundar Pichai's response: “I would love to do a side-by-side comparison of Microsoft’s own models and our models any day, any time. They are using someone else's model.”

See: https://www.msn.com/en-in/money/news/sundar-pichai-vs-satya-...

Note that Microsoft do have their own LLM team, and their own model called Phi-4.

https://huggingface.co/microsoft/phi-4

Recently I was looking for a small LLM that could perform reasonably well while answering questions with low latency, for near realtime conversations running on a single RTX 3090. I settled on Microsoft’s Phi-4 model so far. However I’m not sure yet if my choice is good and open to more suggestions!