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Re:Anthropic IPO by TacticalCoder on Thursday November 12, 2026 @08:17AM (#50466664)
> Meanwhile, Google and Microsoft, which already dominate that area, seem to be dormant.

Google owns 15% of Anthropic I think.

And Google offers Argon 4 to paying Workspace and Google One customers now. How's what was the number 1 model on nearly every single bench a few weeks ago being "dormant"?

I know people all in in the Google ecosystem (getting credits from Android phones they buy etc.) who only swear by the Google models and who are now using Argon 4: I asked them and a few days ago they had access (but they were already using other Google models before that).

Doesn't GMail have billions account by now?

I'd tend to say with billions of users on GMail and a model like Argon and 15% of the Anthropic shares, Google is not where you think it is.

Re:Anthropic IPO by WarmWash on Thursday November 12, 2026 @10:37AM (#50469152)
It's easier to use claude to do stuff insider workspace than it is to use the integrated gemini. Claude has more power to do stuff than gemini, in it's own house. That is such an egregious fumble that it's honestly hilarious.

It's almost like the workspace devs are anthropic plants that are purposely underminig google.

Re:Anthropic IPO by sidibe on Thursday November 12, 2026 @10:51AM (#50469410)
Integrated gemini stuff sucks but it's nothing that special about Claude, the general agentic tools are just better, Agy is also much better at doing things in workspace than the bespoke in-app gemini stuff
Re:Anthropic IPO by WarmWash on Thursday November 12, 2026 @11:27AM (#50469971)
Which is true, but if you are going for the enterprise market, you need to have the thing that is right in front of the user be the thing that works.
Re:Anthropic IPO by metalspot on Thursday November 12, 2026 @12:11PM (#50470641)
Right, because Google actually has assets and a responsibility to keep their customers secure, whereas Claude can do things that are completely insane from a security perspective because they have no liability.
Re:Anthropic IPO by icedchai on Thursday November 12, 2026 @12:13PM (#50470668)
The sad thing is Google could totally own this space. They had a huge head start, more raw data (from search) than anyone, a huge installed base on Workspace and consumer Gmail, tons of compute resources...