Lineage
- Assistant
- Gemini
- Model families
- Gemini ArgonGemini FlashGemma (open models)Gemini CarbonGemini Pro
- Headquarters and founding
- Mountain View, California, United States; founded in 1998
- Leadership
- Sundar Pichai, chief executive of Google and Alphabet; Demis Hassabis, chief executive of Google DeepMind
Founding and headquarters: Google, "Our story", 9 November 2026 ↗
Google's assistant
The assistants ranking →GeminiAssistant · Celsius score71out of 100, 2nd out of 10Performance94Ethics46Environment73The assistant profile →Google's models
Google's models, general intelligence and release date
Epoch AI ECI index and its 95% interval; 9 models released in 2026 and measured by the ECI index; 11 models measured in all, in the "Table" tab
Dot: the index measured, at the release dateLine: the 95% interval
Sources: Epoch AI, "Capabilities & benchmarking", ECI index and APEX-Agents. CC BY 4.0 licence.
An underlined name links to the model profile; the others are below the threshold for a profile (3 public measurements, or a place in the top 10 of a benchmark).
Governance and safety
- Company governance
- Pledge not to build AI for weapons and surveillance withdrawn (2/2025); military contract capped at $200m.
- Model safety
- Grade C at the Future of Life Institute, 20% at SaferAI; Gemini 2.5 Pro safety card published 22 days after the model (2025).
Electricity and environmental approach
- Decarbonised electricity
- 65% carbon-free electricity hour by hour (2025), among the most efficient data centres.
- Company's environmental approach
- 33 times less energy per question in one year, in-house TPU chips, SBTi-validated target; emissions up 81% since 2019.
Methodology: the ranking criteria ; the electricity use of a task for its models is a Projet Celsius estimate, based on the electricity use ofwriting 1,000 tokens (AI Impact Database).
Scores and facts: assistants ranking, scores as of 11/11/2026 (methodology 1.1), sources on the Gemini page. Models: Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0).
Continue in the ranking
The full ranking →AssistantGemini71out of 100, 2nd out of 10Scores, plans, models, data and environment.The entry →ModelGoogleGemini 4 Argon7thout of 71 on general intelligenceGoogle's best-ranked model on general intelligence.The entry →
CompanyOpenAI14models measured, of which 10 with an entryIts assistant, its models, its governance and the electricity of its data centres.The entry →The hub newsletter
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