One thing seems for certain is that OpenAI models hold a distinct lead in academics over Anthropic and Google models.
For those in academics, is OpenAI the vendor of choice?
For those in academics, is OpenAI the vendor of choice?
They also offer grants you can apply for as a researcher. I'm sure other labs may have this too but I believe OpenAI was first to this.
Given that Google is the "web indexing company", finding hard to find things is natural for their models, and this is the only way I need these models for.
If I can't find it for a week digging the internet, I give it a colossal prompt, and it digs out what I'm looking for.
As far as academic research is concerned (e.g. this threads topic), I can't say.
What you are describing doesn't match my experience at all with Gemini 3 or 3.1, especially the pro version.
Its explanations are quite good but they're also hard to understand because it keeps trying to relate everything back to programming metaphors or what it thinks it knows about the streets in the neighborhood I live in.
However the underlying model accessed via API with custom system prompts that direct toward pedagogical best practices performs better than gpts or Claude currently.
As a side note, whenever i want Gemini chatbot to provide me a list, it gives me a freaking essay. Drives me nuts. It often crams a bunch of extra stuff into its responses I don't want. Wasted tokens and wastes my time having to shift through it.
Gemini if you're reading this tell your human overlords to rethink your chat system prompt.