Comment by aliljet
15 days ago
Good God, man. Google has the worst frontier lab rollout of them all. And they're delivering products that are behind the curve constantly.
Now, I happen to believe that's an excellent strategy. I bet they actually resolve more LLM requests than any other company at this point. The lay person still uses Google exclusively.
I pay Google a reasonable price for 5TB storage/backup across GMail/Docs/etc. Any AI they throw in with that is icing on top of the cake.
just cancelled AI pro myself, since I exclusively used it for AI and also pay for youtube premium family it was becoming quite the monthly just for google
if they throw in youtube premium in that package then I might reconisder
It includes one YT Premium license but not a family pack.
Premium Lite is thrown in as well. I have AI Pro free for 18 months and I have checked the T&C docs.
this is why antigravity is a doomed product at a pro level.
they gave away so much pro that they need to have smaller usage levels than competitors or they'll lose a ton of money. $20 was already a loss for users actually using their quota. the majority of pro users are paying far less than that.
so they'll lose their paying users, and keep their free or subsudized, which will make the economics even worse.
What plan is this? How much a month?
Google One - Pro tier. I have it via Lenny's Product Pass which, imo, is a much better deal since it includes Cursor Pro, Granola, and like dozens of other paid sub tiers: https://www.lennysproductpass.com/
I use the hell out of both. Kind of sad that they took Spark out of beta-access, being able to orchestrate via your phone on something that has direct access to your Drive meant I was authoring skills and other functionality on a schedule with spreadsheets serving as databases, deterministic tests, etc.
Hope they roll it out to a full feature soon
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Google AI pro in the USA, if you have Verizon wireless it’s $10 a month add on. Without Verizon it’s $20 a month I believe. You can also share most of the benefits with up to 5? People.
How is this behind the curve? Seriously
Isn't OPUS much cheaper and generally regarded as more intelligent?
Opus is 2x the price. If it’s more intelligent or not is hard to tell, this model has been out for a day.
Afaict, they are targeting difference user bases, Google being after their existing user base, having lost in the developer ecosystem to the two labs and open weight models.
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Are you suggesting it’s BETTER than their competitors?
Because if it’s not, and it’s not available to all paying users (Right now, it’s only available to Ultra users), then they are behind the curve if they’re treating it like Fable.
It’s tone deaf.
FWIW, it's available via API to everyone. (I just tested it out via OpenRouter).
Whether it's actually better than OAI/Anthropic offerings, probably not, but if Google has managed to get back to parity, that's good for competition, prices, and increased model performance in the future. Three strong western competitors is better than two.
It's available to Pro users, but not through Antigravity.
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> I bet they actually resolve more LLM requests than any other company at this point. The lay person still uses Google exclusively.
Unique users, maybe. But a simple query that's answered in a paragraph is negligible compared to devs running agents continuously for tens of hours.
you underestimate the amount of people that use google relative to software engineers "running agents continuously for tens of hours"
Maybe? But it's so many orders of magnitude apart. I can easily do 1B tokens a day (output tokens is probably like 3M?).
When I see non technical people use that Google reply I'd be surprised if it's more than 1k output tokens, and with a tiny model. So a 3000x in output tokens, on a model at least 10x as expensive, I wouldn't be surprised if hardware usage is 30.000x for a dev that uses coding subs vs someone who uses the Google AI overview a couple of times a day.
And that's not counting the absurd difference in cache reads.
Moreover, you need a Google account in order to use it. I wouldn't bother paying 200 USD for it but I just don't want an entire google tracking package just for using one product.
You can use an alt account. Or buy an old one for couple dollars, without security measures.
Yeah, Gemini 1.5 might be the most used (certainly by consumers) ai model. That is the one used by Google Search AI Answers.
False. Last information was that Google Search uses Gemini 3 Flash-lite. Gemini 1.5 is totally outdated and used nowhere.
Oh, I didn't notice that they switched from 1.5 to 3 flash about six months ago. I know someone there and they talked about how 1.5 was hardened and it was a pain to do so on newer models that is wasn't worth it for a long time. But that convo was in the beginning of the year. I should have looked it up.