https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/google-grap...

> There is a spectrum of opinion inside Google. Some employees believe Anthropic's Fable and OpenAI's Astra models are improving at a faster rate than Gemini.

> These people believe that Gemini 4 — even at its best — will still lag behind those models in some areas. Other employees believe the coming version has caught up with the leading AI labs.

> A Google employee familiar with model development said there is "large consensus" internally at the company that Gemini 4 is at the frontier. This person said the company had conducted rigorous tests of the models and denied that they struggle with messy, real-world coding tasks.