It's probably great for lots of things but it doesn't seem very good for recent news. I asked it about recent accusations around xAI and methane gas turbines and it had no clue what I was talking about. I asked the same question to Grok and it gave me all sorts of details.
Gemini performing the best on coding tasks, while giving underwhelming responses on recent news.
While Grok was OK for coding tasks, but being linked to X, provided best response on recent events.
You are missing the point here. The LLM is just the “reasoning engine” for agents now. Its corpus of facts are meaningless, and shouldn’t really be relied upon for anything. But in conjunction with a tool calling agentic process, with access to the web, what you described is now trivially doable. Single shot LLM usage is not really anything anyone should be doing anymore.
I generally point people to Anthropic's seminal blog post on the topic: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-effective-age...
I'm just discussing the GP's topic of casual use. Casual use implies heading over to an already-hosted prompt and typing in questions. Implementing my own 'agentic process' does not sound very casual to me.
It really is though. This can be as simple as using Claude desktop with a web search tool.