There are (at least) 2 completely different public endpoints called as "Gemini": 1) https://gemini.google.com/ https://gemini.google.com/ - this one just searc

There are (at least) 2 completely different public endpoints called as "Gemini": 1) https://gemini.google.com/ https://gemini.google.com/ - this one just searches in Google with current language/region/safe-browsing settings and personal adjustments and rewrites top search results as an answer. Generative capabilities are basically not used. 2) https://aistudio.google.com/ https://aistudio.google.com/ - here you can select specific version and generate response with LLM. Retrieval Augmented Generation (i. e. Google Search) is not used. I suppose you used #1, that's why you cave the correct result. #2 fails. There is a huge group of question where you can immediately find the answer, but LLM struggles. Another question (as example) is "What was the intended purpose of the TORIFUNE satellite in The Touhou Project?". OpenAI has something similar, providing https://www.bing.com/chat https://www.bing.com/chat for RAG and https://chat.openai.com https://chat.openai.com for an actual LLM.