Comment by avinoth
15 days ago
One thing I've observed Gemini being the best is in the context of non-western stuff. Like, when I ask about obscure srilankan food, or chat about Indian/Tamil movies or songs, Religious customs & beliefs, Gemini almost always answers accurately and very close to how helpful they are in Anglosphere related topics. ChatGPT also does do a bit better recently, but Claude/Grok are absolute trash on those fronts.
Google's years of research project into Indic scripts, image trainings, translation efforts & transliteration efforts is literally paying off. The AI adoption from non-English, non-Chinese population will only if you have these contextual localisations, which I think Gemini is poised to do well.
For example, you can ask for a shopping list for a marriage function in a town from Tamil nadu (the marriage custom varies by districts), and Gemini provides contextual and helpful answer (like what is the custom followed there, what is gifted traditionally, etc), whereas if you ask Claude/ChatGPT, it talks about marriage registeries or pretty generalised answers which is not relevant or useful.
100% agreed. When I ask to generate an image or a poster with an indic language, chatgpt and claude always make gibberish words for something that is not at the center but gemini nails it almost every time in first attempt.
That has always been my experience with Google and how they work their datasets. I think it's already well known how their picture post-processing is close to the best for people with darker skin tones as their post-processing models are trained with more varied datasets in an intentional way. Which is somewhat close to what you're mentioning here.