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Gemini

Name: Gemini
Author: Google

by Google

Google's AI. Works across Search, Docs, and Gmail, and genuinely useful if you're already in the Google ecosystem.

Free + PaidChatbotMultimodalSearch-First

Last checked: 17 August 2026

The details

Context Window: 1,000,000 tokens (one million) — can process entire books, full codebases, or lengthy videos in a single session
Cost: Free tier available · Advanced plan via Google One subscription.
Open Source?: No (Gemma — Google's open version — is though)
Input / Output: TextImagesVoiceVideo analysisFiles

Best for

Google Workspace (Docs, Gmail)
Real-time web research
Analysing videos & audio
Very long documents

Kevin’s take

“If you live in Google's world — Gmail, Docs, Drive — Gemini slots in beautifully. That 1 million token window is genuinely remarkable.”

— Kevin, formerly of IT Support

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Google's AI assistant. Text, image, and multimodal tasks. Integrated across Google products.

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From the AI Glossary

ChatbotAny AI tool you interact with through a conversation-style interface — you type something, it types back. ChatGPT is a chatbot. So is Claude, Gemini, and Grok. The word has been around much longer than modern AI — early chatbots followed simple rules and were mostly terrible. Today's chatbots are powered by large language models, which makes them vastly more capable.

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What's the Actual Difference Between ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude?The Tinkerer opened all three up. They're more similar than the marketing suggests, and different in ways that actually matter.

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