I dislike Google rather strongly due to their ad-based business model, and I was previously very skeptical of their AI offerings because of very lackluster perf

I dislike Google rather strongly due to their ad-based business model, and I was previously very skeptical of their AI offerings because of very lackluster performance compared to OpenAI and Claude. But I can't help but be impressed with Gemini Pro 2.5 for "deep research" and agentic coding. I have subscriptions with all three so that I can keep up with SOTA, but if I had to choose only one to keep, right now it'd be Gemini. That said I still don't "cheer" for them and I would really rather someone else win the race. But that is orthogonal to recognition of observed objective superiority.