Exactly, they release cool consumer stuff, but they aren't releasing anything close to the performance of the best open weight Chinese models.
They basically compete in the "fun running at home doing basic stuff" scene. (Except OSs 120 by openai but it's been ages since then)
While the vector store is local, it is sending the data to Gemini's API for embedding. (Which if using a paid API key is probably fine for most use cases, no long term retention/training etc.)
reply