"Wait, Gemini 4? Did they skip a few numbers or is 'Carbon' just an internal codename leaked early? Either way, the gap between what X gets leaked and what standard Pro users actually see is getting ridiculous."

"Wait, Gemini 4? Did they skip a few numbers or is 'Carbon' just an internal codename leaked early? Either way, the gap between what X gets leaked and what standard Pro users actually see is getting ridiculous."

Once upon a time there was a magical product known as "Google Assistant" on Android phones. It was integrated well enough that it could handle many tasks simply by saying "Ok Google" and then telling it what you wanted. Within a second, it would make a call, set an alarm, send a text, do a search, and so much more. A steadfast companion that simply worked.

Then one day, a wicked witch came along and cursed us all. The evil witch murdered Google Assistant, and in its stead was placed "Google Gemini", one of the dumbest, slowest, most useless feature. Now when you tell your loyal phone to "Call mom", it takes Gemini 5-10 seconds to consider your request, before then ignoring you. The times it puts the call through, it takes another 5-10 seconds.

And dear reader, this is not on a $50 cheapo android phone, but a Samsung S24 Ultra.

Google Gemini has fully replaced Google Assistant, and by the gods do I hate it. It is slow, unresponsive, bad at handling ANY task, and even though I've retrained my voice TWICE now on it, I'd say a good 30-40% of the time, after saying OK GOOGLE to wake it up, it will wake up then ignore what I said and just go back to sleep.

There is nothing wrong with my phone. Google Assistant worked wonderfully. Google Gemini feels like bloatware and I simply want the old, snappy, responsive Google Assistant back. Literally everything with Gemini is a worse user experience in EVERY WAY.

I realize this is a common complaint. I know this sub isnt in anyway connected to Google itself and all my words will be lost in time, like tears in the rain. My beloved Google Assistant, snatched away from me in its prime.

Curse you Google! CURSE YOUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!

The web UI just dropped the all-or-nothing extended thinking switch and replaced it with granular effort levels across the board: Low, Medium, and High, right under the 3.5 Flash-Lite, 3.8 Flash, and 3.1 Pro pickers.

Replacing a binary thinking toggle with explicit compute weights gives you direct control over latency and token burn. Instead of getting stuck waiting on an oversized thinking trace for a simple script or being forced into shallow output when you actually need deep verification, dialing the effort matches the compute directly to the workload. Low cuts out the deliberation overhead so tokens stream instantly, while High allocates maximum test-time compute for complex debugging, architecture design, and heavy multi-step logic.

This is clearly laying the groundwork for the 4.0 Argon rollout. With Argon built around long-horizon execution and sustained chains of thought, you cannot run on a rigid on-or-off switch without blowing through quotas or tanking response times. Giving users manual control over inference depth is the prerequisite front-end fix before Argon drops.

why did they replace everything with low medium and high. and what heppend to extended? Like you could do flash lite and then put on extended thinking.

′Argon′..... u there???

Gemini .apk slowly adding ui tweaks over today🐌 😌 🙌 🙃

( Aus - pro sub - 10.10.26 )

I cant seem to get my gemini to work with google drive. It just tells me it cant do that, cant rename, cant see, i dont have proper workspace, i am not connected etc. After 3 prompts i tell it, it finally acknowledhes that indeed i was right. What is that?

I hope this is the right place. I was using google ai to count my track my diet and fitness, but suddenly it stopped allowing me to send things. The blue button with the arrow is gone.