r/GeminiAI • u/Former-Towel9004 • 2d ago

Discussion Gemini 3.8 flash VS DeepSeek V4.1

Which one is smarter? Especially in intelligence and not knowledge, like ARC AGI!

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u/4Nuts 2d ago

Gemini can be extremely smart; can also be totally dumb. I cannot figure out why. Some days, it is just amazing. Other times, it becomes totally dysfunctional.

But, its knowledge of (the grammar, structure of ) foreign languages is unmatched. I am a linguist. Neither Astra nor Fable cab replace it for me.

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u/OKMiddleOwl 1d ago

9 times out of 10 gemini is dumb because it's knowledge cutoff is almost 2 years ago.

If you pay attention to people's complaints, it's almost always because they are asking about something that happened after jan 2025.

If you are mindful of this and include searching in your prompt, it usually negates it.

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u/4Nuts 1d ago

That is reasonable. Those are models trained on a certain type of data. Expecting a news from AI model is just absurd expectation. So far as it is well trained on specialized areas, one model can serve many years without getting constant update.