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Melanie Goodman's avatar

Brilliant piece! This is such an important distinction for leaders right now. Most executives are being pulled into an endless cycle of AI headlines without ever getting the time to understand where the operational value actually sits. McKinsey’s 2025 AI research showed that companies seeing the strongest returns are focusing on a handful of strategically embedded use cases rather than chasing every new model release.

Which capability from the latest Gemini releases do you think business leaders are most likely to underestimate over the next 12 months?

Joel Salinas's avatar

I see Gemini’s advantage the 2 billion customers already in the Gmail workspace, and now with 3.5 Flash they are quickly becoming the go to AI along with Claude. I think companies not paying attention to this will regret it

Joël Kai Lenz's avatar

Such a great review with superb insights! Great job Joel :)

Joel Salinas's avatar

glad to hear, Joël!

Ivan Landabaso's avatar

Interesting read thanks Joel!

Joel Salinas's avatar

Thanks for checking it out!

Juan Gonzalez's avatar

Great breakdown, Joel!

Do you think the Omni version is going to be usable in the coming months or Google just released as way to make buzz and raise hype. Kinda like what Sora did at the time.

I think 3.5 Flash is the most important part here even if it's waaay pricier than its predecessors.

Joel Salinas's avatar

I’m don’t think it’s hype, it’s interesting to me that they are moving away from wanting to be the next to being the fastest

Juan Gonzalez's avatar

Yeah, that's an interesting move they made.

Hodman Murad's avatar

Most leaders get buried in news because of the sheer amount of it, and they don't know what to ignore.

Joel Salinas's avatar

Yes! Me half of time time haha

Chris Tottman's avatar

It's also not easy to move from old Gemini to new Gemini 😳

Joel Salinas's avatar

This is a great point! first impressions stick

Mike Goitein's avatar

Solid insights & takeaways. It really seems as though it's effectiveness over efficiency with Gemini Flash 3.5, Joel

Joel Salinas's avatar

yeah I would agree with that!

John Brewton's avatar

Headline pricing that gets eaten by token chattiness on complex tasks is the gap most teams miss until after they migrate.