Gemini

Gemini's edge is placement: it's woven through Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Drive and Android, so 'summarize this thread' or 'draft a reply' happens where you already work. The models are genuinely frontier-class — enormous context windows, excellent multimodal understanding of images and video, and Deep Research that compiles cited reports. The free tier is arguably the most generous of the majors.

If your work lives in Google Workspace, Gemini removes the copy-paste layer entirely — and its multimodal + long-context strengths are real, not marketing.

Every place Gemini shows up across Choose My Stack — the research it’s part of and the articles that cover it.

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