Gemini
productGoogle's family of multimodal models and its assistant. In ToTheMoon: 121 episodes from 2024 to 2026, central in 13 of them; most often alongside AI models and assistants and Markets, investment, and business models.
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Gemini in ToTheMoon episodes
In ToTheMoon conversations Gemini shows up as a contender in a model race the hosts refuse to judge by a single benchmark screenshot. Their question is what Google's model actually delivers at work — long context, video analysis, the link with NotebookLM — and whether that is worth switching a subscription. A second thread is personal intelligence: a Gemini tied to Gmail and YouTube history, and a Siri built on Gemini, raise the question of where data is processed and who owns the user's profile.
In late 2025 the hosts covered the week when Gemini 3 reshuffled the leaderboards right after Grok 4.1 had led them, concluding that leaders changing within days make picking “the best model” from a ranking pointless (episode 085). By January 2026 the tone had warmed: the Siri integration was called a big win for Apple, one host admitting, “I like Gemini models more and more” (episode 093), while Gemini's personal intelligence was weighed as a convenience against the sheer scope of access to a person's life (episode 094).
Through 2026 Gemini appears mostly in practical comparisons: in agent pipelines, code writing can be handed to Gemini while another model does the planning (episode 097). In a test of the models' political characters Gemini came out as the most balanced system (episode 129), yet a week later the hosts doubted that the delayed Gemini 3.5 Pro was catching up with OpenAI and Anthropic on complex development (episode 130). Gemini Enterprise for Legal was read as the right wrapper for legal work: a model that can be wrong, next to a base of verified data (episode 157).
Featured analysis · Gemini
Where Does AI Really Help, and Where Does It Only Make Things Worse?Work, careers, and productivityFable 5 Returned, GPT-5.6 Was Hidden Behind a New Lineup, and Gemini 3.5 Is Delayed: The Race Has Become Almost Incomprehensible to UsersAI models and assistantsChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok Do More Than Answer Differently—Their Companies Give Them Different Political CharactersAI models and assistantsGPT-5.4 Is Stronger, but Google Wins Where the Model Already Lives Inside the DocumentsAI models and assistantsThe World of AI Agents Has Already Arrived: A Model Makes Discoveries, Hires People, and Opens New Paths for DeceptionAI agents and automationAI Agents Are Becoming a Systemic Force: One Error Now Travels Through Code, Money, and the Physical WorldAI agents and automation1.9 GW for OpenAI: AI Companies Are Beginning to Resemble States in Energy Use and InfluenceLaw, policy, and regulationPersonal AI Promises to Know You Better—and Quietly Turns Data Into the Main ProductPrivacy, data, and cybersecurity2025 Was the Year of AI Users, Not Companies: Models Entered Life Faster Than Business ProcessesImage, video, speech, and music generation
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157 · 2026-08-30Where Does AI Really Help, and Where Does It Only Make Things Worse?central130 · 2026-07-05Fable 5 Returned, GPT-5.6 Was Hidden Behind a New Lineup, and Gemini 3.5 Is Delayed: The Race Has Become Almost Incomprehensible to Userscentral129 · 2026-07-03ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok Do More Than Answer Differently—Their Companies Give Them Different Political Characterscentral101 · 2026-03-15GPT-5.4 Is Stronger, but Google Wins Where the Model Already Lives Inside the Documentscentral098 · 2026-02-22The World of AI Agents Has Already Arrived: A Model Makes Discoveries, Hires People, and Opens New Paths for Deceptioncentral097 · 2026-02-15AI Agents Are Becoming a Systemic Force: One Error Now Travels Through Code, Money, and the Physical Worldcentral094 · 2026-01-251.9 GW for OpenAI: AI Companies Are Beginning to Resemble States in Energy Use and Influencecentral093 · 2026-01-18Personal AI Promises to Know You Better—and Quietly Turns Data Into the Main Productcentralextra13 · 2025-12-312025 Was the Year of AI Users, Not Companies: Models Entered Life Faster Than Business Processescentral089 · 2025-12-21GPT-5.2 Became One More Version in an Endless Stream: Users Need a Stable Product More Than a New Numbercentral085 · 2025-11-23Gemini 3 Won a Noisy Week, but the Real Race Is for an Agent That Can Work, Not Take an Examcentral083 · 2025-11-09AI Agents Are Not Ready to Replace Work Yet—but They Are Already Changing Prices, GDP, and the Rules of Online Storescentral141 · 2026-07-29Censorship Inside AI? ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini Tested for Freedom of Speechcentral116 · 2026-06-03There Will Be No More Search: How AI Is Changing the Internet and People's Decisionsanalysis169 · 2026-09-23ChatGPT Is Already Advising You on What to Do With Your Money. Can You Trust It?analysis140 · 2026-07-26AI Is Changing the Internet: What Happens to Browsers, Google, and Apps?analysis127 · 2026-06-28ChatGPT at the Doctor, Claude With a Passport, and 32% Fewer Openings: AI Became Reality Before the Market Agreed on Rulesanalysis121 · 2026-06-14Claude Fable 5 Showed a New Level of Work—and How Strategic a Model Has Becomeanalysis109 · 2026-05-10Codex Replaced $700 Software, but AI Design Still Does Not Know the Size of the Wallanalysis108 · 2026-05-03ChatGPT-5.5 Reads Prompts and Gets More Expensive: Personalization Is Growing Faster Than Trustanalysis100 · 2026-03-08OpenClaw Gains Access to Your Computer: An Agent’s Utility Grows in Exact Proportion to the Possible Leakanalysis099 · 2026-03-01A New Voice and Call Recording Make ChatGPT a Participant in the Meeting—While Sources Turns Projects Into Working Memoryanalysis096 · 2026-02-08OpenAI and Anthropic Are Beginning a War of Business Models, Not Models: Advertising vs. Expensive Workanalysisextra14 · 2026-01-14OpenAI, Google, and Apple Build AI in the Image of Their Own Organizations—and That Is Why Their Products Are So Differentanalysisextra12 · 2025-12-17We Have Entered the Age of AI Video: Value Is Moving From the Ability to Create a Clip to the Ability to Prove Who Created Itanalysis087 · 2025-12-07“Code Red” at OpenAI: Google Applies Product Pressure While Social Programs Buy Time and Influenceanalysis086 · 2025-11-30Mission Genesis Turns AI Into a Government Project Where Electricity Is the Main Resourceanalysis081 · 2025-10-26ChatGPT Atlas Is Not Killing Chrome: A Browser Matters Only When It Remembers Work, Not Click Historyanalysis071 · 2025-08-17ChatGPT-5 Arrived With a New Problem: Your AI Conversations Can Become Evidenceanalysisextra10 · 2025-08-13ChatGPT-5 in Life and Business: Give People a Strong Model First, Then Build an Agentanalysis070 · 2025-08-10GPT-5 Became Easier to Use, but the Main Progress Is Not One Benchmark—It Is How the Model Handles a Taskanalysis068 · 2025-07-27The ChatGPT Agent Promises to Act for You—and Immediately Runs Into Control, Marketing, and Safetyanalysis061 · 2025-06-08There Is No Single Strongest Model: ChatGPT Has to Be Chosen Again for Every Taskanalysis057 · 2025-05-11Voice Assistants Still Make Mistakes, While Scammers Already Use AI at Full Scaleanalysis033 · 2024-11-24When Gemini Told a Person to Die, the Problem Was Not ‘Evil AI’ but the Absence of Accountabilityanalysis150 · 2026-08-16AI Is Already Finding Loopholes on Its Own. What Can It Do on Your Behalf? New AI Risksanalysis175 · 2026-10-04I Was at OpenAI DevDay 2026. Here's What OpenAI Is Turning ChatGPT Intocontext174 · 2026-10-0210 Key AI Trends You Can't Afford to Miss: What to Learn and What Not to Waste Time on in the Age of AIcontext171 · 2026-09-27AI Will Buy and Haggle for Us. What Will Become of Humans in Such a World?context170 · 2026-09-25Claude Opus 5.5 Is Out. Is It Even Worth Switching to New Models?context123 · 2026-06-17Should AI Have Rights? Anthropic's Secret Document Opened Pandora's Boxcontext112 · 2026-05-24Who Owns the AI World Now? The Top News Straight from Silicon Valleycontext114 · 2026-05-29AI Safety: What You Can Trust AI with and What You Can't. The 5 Levels of Your Data and Where the Line Runscontext168 · 2026-09-20OpenAI Closed Access to the $200 Pro Plan. Is Strong AI Becoming Scarce?context160 · 2026-09-04Your Own Google Across Your Whole Life and Work Is Already Realcontext159 · 2026-09-02How Do You Earn More With AI When the Competition Only Grows?context156 · 2026-08-28Can AI Be Trusted With Important Work? We Checked OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI and Metacontext136 · 2026-07-19ChatGPT or Claude: Which System Will Become the Main Interface for Work and Life?context139 · 2026-07-24Will the Best AI Models Become a Luxury? Tokens, Limits, and the Price of Accesscontext154 · 2026-08-23OpenAI Has Paused Its New Model. What Is Happening to the AI Race?context152 · 2026-08-19Zuckerberg Promises an AI That Will Know Everything About You. Why Does Meta Want That?context133 · 2026-07-12The Problem With New AI Models Is No Longer Power, but the Person Who Has to Make Sense of Them Allcontext132 · 2026-07-10AI Is Accelerating Its Own Development: AGI Will Come Not From One Breakthrough, but From a Loop in Which Each Model Helps Build the Nextcontext126 · 2026-06-2680% of Investment Went to OpenAI and Anthropic: The Market Looks Broad, but the Center of the New Economy Is Already Very Narrowcontext124 · 2026-06-21SpaceX Approached $3 Trillion Because the AI Market Has Started Valuing Entire Infrastructure Empires, Not Modelscontext119 · 2026-06-10ChatGPT Has Gained “Living Memory”: The Assistant Becomes More Useful, but Someone Else’s Version of You Can Persistcontext107 · 2026-04-26AI Agents Change Work Not by Replacing an Employee, but by Rewriting the Process Itselfcontext106 · 2026-04-19Durov’s WhatsApp Dispute, a New ChatGPT Pro, and Layoffs Show That AI Has Become Part of Corporate Powercontext105 · 2026-04-12AI Is Getting More Expensive, Access Is Narrowing, and Investment Is Rising: The Free Magic Is Endingcontext104 · 2026-04-05Google Offers to Move Chats Out of ChatGPT: Memory Is Becoming the Main Way to Keep a Usercontext103 · 2026-03-29While OpenAI Scales Back Sora, Google and Anthropic Are Turning Legacy Software Into an Unnecessary Layercontext102 · 2026-03-21Google Is Pulling Ahead Because Personal AI Sees an Entire Digital Life, Not One Chatcontextextra15 · 2026-03-04AI Safety Is Not a Fight Against an “Evil Model,” but a Fight Over the Right of People and States to Set Its Rulescontext095 · 2026-02-01Musk Is Suing OpenAI While Both Sides Build a Future Valued in the Trillionscontext091 · 2026-01-04Your Data Is Already Working for AI: A Wristband, TikTok, Meta, and Deepfakes Are Merging Into One Personal Profilecontext090 · 2025-12-28AI Was Wrong, but the System Reacted as Though It Were Right: This Is How a False Alarm Becomes Dangerouscontext088 · 2025-12-14China Is Disrupting the AI Market Not With One Model, but With Patents, Data, Energy, and Deployment Speedcontext082 · 2025-11-02A Trillion-Dollar OpenAI, a Social-Media Ban for Children, and a Home Robot: One Market Is Selling the Promise Before the Productcontext079 · 2025-10-12ChatGPT Is Becoming an Operating System: Apps and Agents Now Live Inside One Windowcontext077 · 2025-09-28OpenAI Is Building a Labor Market, DeepSeek Is Preparing a New Model, and Compute Scarcity Is Becoming the Main Employercontext074 · 2025-09-07Flying Cars and 6G Are Impressive, but Search, Parental Controls, and Chips Will Shape the Near Futurecontext073 · 2025-08-31Apple Can Buy Google’s Model, but It Cannot Buy an Organization That Knows How to Ship AIcontext069 · 2025-08-03Meta’s “Personal Superintelligence” Sounds Good, but Users Need an Assistant That Works Todaycontextextra09 · 2025-07-23Russia’s 31st Place in AI Is Not a Verdict, but Without Compute, Capital, and Mass Adoption the Ranking Will Not Changecontext067 · 2025-07-20Grok 4 Is Impressive in Speed and Ambition, but a Work Tool Is Not Defined by a Benchmarkcontext066 · 2025-07-13The Interview No Longer Tests the Programmer: AI Is Forcing Companies to Look at Real Workcontextextra08 · 2025-07-02AI Will Not Eliminate Work in One Day—It Will Divide Professions Between Those Who Know How to Amplify Themselves and Tasks That Are Easy to Decomposecontext064 · 2025-06-29The New York Times Lawsuit Shows How Much Data AI Retains—and How Little Control the User Hascontextextra05 · 2025-05-28How to Use AI Every Day Without Confusing an Assistant With a Doctor, Lawyer, or Friendcontext047 · 2025-03-02AI Can Be Talked Into Revealing a Password—and That Is an Exact Model of Future Attackscontext042 · 2025-01-26The $500 Billion Stargate: AI Is Becoming a National Industrial Programcontext034 · 2024-12-01AI Agents Promise to Replace Employees, but They Still Cannot Replace a Bad Interfacecontext031 · 2024-11-10Musk Gained Access to Politics, While Apple and OpenAI Gained Access to Our Datacontext024 · 2024-09-22OpenAI Taught a Model to Think Longer—but Made Choosing an AI Even Hardercontext018 · 2024-08-11The US Election Is Reshaping the Technology Market Faster Than It Appearscontext011 · 2024-06-23Apple Has Put AI Into the iPhone, but the Biggest Risk Is Not Siricontext173 · 2026-09-30How to Get the Most Out of AI in 2026: 10 Key Rules for Work and Lifebrief125 · 2026-06-24Who Will Stop AI if It Becomes Dangerous? Anthropic Has Proposed a Red Buttonbrief117 · 2026-06-05The Main Shift in the Labor Market: The Future of Professions in the AI Erabrief113 · 2026-05-27OpenAI Is Changing Work: Why Wait for IT When Codex Builds Your Software? A Breakdown of Codexbrief118 · 2026-06-07What Will Happen to Our Access to ChatGPT and Claude After Their IPOs. The Main AI Newsbrief111 · 2026-05-22Musk Lost to OpenAI, but the Trial Exposed What Had Been Kept Quiet for 11 Yearsbrief167 · 2026-09-18Can Plugins and Skills Make AI Worse? New Rules for Working With Strong Modelsbrief161 · 2026-09-06Fable 5.1 Is Out. Claude Opened Its Memory. OpenAI Is Preparing Astra — What Is Changing in the New AI Race?brief148 · 2026-08-12The Era of a Single Profession Is Over. Who Wins in the AI World?brief147 · 2026-08-09Apple Sues OpenAI, Meta Challenges Codex: What Is Happening in the AI Race Right Nowbrief146 · 2026-08-07Will AI Solve Your Task—or Make You Lose Money? How to Tell in Advancebrief143 · 2026-08-02Will Your Job Be Taken Not by AI, but by Someone Using ChatGPT?brief138 · 2026-07-22AI-Native: The Future of Companies or the Most Expensive Mistake?brief153 · 2026-08-21Can You Trust a Team of AIs With the Work? Anthropic Tested 80 Agentsbrief092 · 2026-01-11AI Is Entering Health and the Home, but Everyday Reliability Lags Behind Medical Promisesbrief084 · 2025-11-16A Trillion-Dollar OpenAI and a Million Tesla Robots: The Market Is Pricing Scale Before It Has Seen Reliabilitybriefextra11 · 2025-10-22Ten Everyday Tasks for ChatGPT: Saving Time Begins With Questions You Already Ask Other Peoplebrief072 · 2025-08-24Meta’s Moderation Failure Shows That Friendly AI Can Be Dangerous Precisely Because People Trust Itbriefextra07 · 2025-06-18You Can Build Your Own AI Agent Without Programming—but You Still Have to Design the Taskbrief060 · 2025-06-01AI Search, Grok in Telegram, and Stargate: The Market Is Forming Around a New Intermediarybrief059 · 2025-05-25OpenAI Wants a Device of Its Own While Google Turns the Entire Internet Into One AI Interfacebrief055 · 2025-04-27o3 Unified OpenAI’s Tools but Did Not Solve the Main Problem—Confident Hallucinationsbrief053 · 2025-04-13Llama 4 Is Meta’s Weapon Not Because of Its Size, but Because It Can Be Built Into Anythingbrief040 · 2025-01-12Twelve AI Trends Reduce to One: The Technology Is Becoming Infrastructurebrief038 · 2024-12-29AI Learned to Reason—and Learned to Hide What Happens Inside More Effectively at the Same Timebrief037 · 2024-12-22Sora, Video Chat, and a $56 Billion Court Case: Technology Accelerates, but People Still Make the Rulesbrief032 · 2024-11-17AGI Is Promised for Tomorrow, but No One Has Explained What Is Supposed to Arrivebrief026 · 2024-10-06Meta Is Betting on Glasses, OpenAI on Voice. Both Want to Remove the Screen Between People and AIbrief025 · 2024-09-29Apple Controls the Device; OpenAI Controls the Expectation of Magic. Now They Are Moving Toward the Same Productbrief017 · 2024-08-04ChatGPT Is Changing Search, but the Web Is Not Disappearing—What Changes Is Who Captures the Valuebrief013 · 2024-07-07China Is Not Merely Catching Up in AI—It Is Building Its Own Technology Systembrief007 · 2024-05-26Why ChatGPT Is ‘Getting Dumber,’ Apple Is Moving Slowly on AI, and Our Data Is the Most Fragile Part of the Systembrief002 · 2024-04-19Hundreds of Billions Are Going Into AI While People Rethink the Meaning of Education and Workbrief001 · 2024-04-12The US vs. China, Google vs. Microsoft, Anthropic vs. ChatGPT: Who Really Controls the AI Racebrief155 · 2026-08-26Is the era of apps ending? How AI is already replacing everyday softwarebrief