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It does? Google AI studio is their developer dashboard. Google Vertex is their equivalent of Amazon Bedrock. Google Gemini Chat is their ChatGPT app for norm

It does? Google AI studio is their developer dashboard. Google Vertex is their equivalent of Amazon Bedrock. Google Gemini Chat is their ChatGPT app for normies. Google Antigravity is their Cursor equivalent.

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vineyardmike 1y ago
I agree what you’ve listed makes sense as a product portfolio. But AI Studio is getting vibe coding tools. AI Studio also has a API that competes with Vertex. They have IDE plugins for existing IDEs to expose Chat, Agents, etc. They also have Gemini CLI for when those don’t work. There is also Firebase Studio, a browser based IDE for vibe coding. Jules, a browser based code agent orchestration tool. Opal, a node-based tool to build AI… things? Stich, a tool to build UIs. Colab with AI for a different type of coding. Notebook LM for AI research (many features now available in Gemini App). AI Overviews and AI mode in search, which now feature a generic chat interface. Thats just new stuff, and not including all the existing products (Gmail, Home) that have Gemini added. This is the benefit of a big company vs startups. They can build out a product for every type of user and every user journey, at once.
- koakuma-chan 1y ago
  I concede.
- xnx 1y ago
  Don't forget Gemini CLI In another 2 years we'll probably be back to just "Google" as digital agent that can do any research, creative, or coding task you can imagine.
drcongo 1y ago
> Google Vertex is their equivalent of Amazon Bedrock Well, that clears that up.
- koakuma-chan 1y ago
  In "real world" you don't use OpenAI or Anthropic API directly—you are forced to use AWS, GCP, or Azure. Each of these has its own service for running LLMs, which is conceptually the same as using OpenAI or Anthropic API directly, but with much worse DX. For AWS it's called Bedrock, for GCP—Vertex, and for Azure it's AI Foundry I believe. They also may offer complementary features like prompt management, evals, etc, but from what I've seen so far it's all crap.
exitb 1y ago
And In practice, when I needed to use one of their models for a small project, it turned out that the only sane way is to go via OpenRouter…
verdverm 1y ago
Also gemini-cli (terrible) Google ADK (agent development kit, awesome)

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vineyardmike 1y ago

I agree what you’ve listed makes sense as a product portfolio. But AI Studio is getting vibe coding tools. AI Studio also has a API that competes with Vertex. They have IDE plugins for existing IDEs to expose Chat, Agents, etc. They also have Gemini CLI for when those don’t work. There is also Firebase Studio, a browser based IDE for vibe coding. Jules, a browser based code agent orchestration tool. Opal, a node-based tool to build AI… things? Stich, a tool to build UIs. Colab with AI for a different type of coding. Notebook LM for AI research (many features now available in Gemini App). AI Overviews and AI mode in search, which now feature a generic chat interface. Thats just new stuff, and not including all the existing products (Gmail, Home) that have Gemini added. This is the benefit of a big company vs startups. They can build out a product for every type of user and every user journey, at once.

koakuma-chan 1y ago
I concede.
xnx 1y ago
Don't forget Gemini CLI In another 2 years we'll probably be back to just "Google" as digital agent that can do any research, creative, or coding task you can imagine.

drcongo 1y ago

> Google Vertex is their equivalent of Amazon Bedrock Well, that clears that up.

koakuma-chan 1y ago
In "real world" you don't use OpenAI or Anthropic API directly—you are forced to use AWS, GCP, or Azure. Each of these has its own service for running LLMs, which is conceptually the same as using OpenAI or Anthropic API directly, but with much worse DX. For AWS it's called Bedrock, for GCP—Vertex, and for Azure it's AI Foundry I believe. They also may offer complementary features like prompt management, evals, etc, but from what I've seen so far it's all crap.

exitb 1y ago

And In practice, when I needed to use one of their models for a small project, it turned out that the only sane way is to go via OpenRouter…

verdverm 1y ago

Also gemini-cli (terrible) Google ADK (agent development kit, awesome)