Interestingly, per the recent Google antitrust ruling documents, AI mode is extra fast because of a special FastSearch index: https://x.com/Marie_Haynes/status/1963031598829314161
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It also seems to excel at things ChatGPT 5 Thinking isn't good at. Simple things like "Here's a screenshot of text, please transcribe it" - ChatGPT 5 Thinking will spend 2 minutes and still get the results wrong, while Gemini Pro will spend 20-30 seconds and transcribe everything perfectly.
Obviously that's just 1 use case, but as someone who previously used ChatGPT exclusively, I'm increasingly impressed by Gemini the more I use it. Mainly due to the much faster thinking times that seem to provide equal or better results than GTP 5 Thinking.
I took pictures of a book, asked Gemini to transcribe, then to translate them and I'm now in the process of having it reproduce the whole book in latex (lot of figures). Not sure exactly what I'm doing but but I've been wondering: Should I reproduce the publishing house logo? Or invent my own? Damn, this is fun.