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Google has been playing catch up with OpenAI and Anthropic. Does its new flagship model really compete at the frontier?

1 source · first seen 16:30 2 Oct · updated 16:30 2 Oct

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  • Gemini 4 puts Google back in the frontier AI conversation, analysts say
  • Google had been trailing OpenAI and Anthropic for much of 2026
  • Frontier-model competition raises disruption stakes for Indian IT services firms

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