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Welcome to the Friday edition of our newsletter. We spend Friday’s going deeper into tools and trends related to generative AI (and Tuesdays sharing news updates).

Next week, we’re hosting a 3-hour virtual workshop on Google Gemini. If you’re considering making the switch from ChatGPT to another tool, there are compelling reason to choose Gemini. Let’s explore some of those here, and be sure to sign up for the workshop to learn more.

The current Arena leaderboard has Gemini models third for text, first for vision, fifth for document analysis, first for text-to image, second for image editing, fourth for search and first for text-to-video. Gemini is a well-rounded LLM that holds its own against any model. And it’s backed by one or the largest companies in the world, so it will continue to improve.

We’re huge fans of NotebookLM, and we’ll tell you all about it in the workshop. It’s a chatbot that’s grounded in whatever documents you give it. But now you can bring your NotebookLM notebooks into your Gemini chats to allow Gemini to answer questions, summarize, and generate new content based on your notes, documents, and sources.

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OK, so maybe not anything. But we are constantly impressed by what Gemini’s Nano Banana image model can create (we wrote about it in January). We gave it a photo of Snider and a recipe, and we asked for comic book style instructions of the recipe. Impressive.

You’ve heard of Copilot Agents and ChatGPT GPTs. Gemini has its own version in Gems. Gems are saved, customized versions of Gemini that you configure for a specific purpose. Instead of starting every conversation from scratch, a Gem remembers a set of instructions, a tone, and a focus area so it behaves like a specialist right from the first message. Think of it as hiring a dedicated assistant for a particular job.

Gemini in Chrome lets you summarize pages, compare options across tabs, and get answers based on the context of what you're browsing — all without switching tabs. It can also work across your Google apps, automate tasks like booking appointments, and let you chat via Gemini Live for spoken answers.

Build presentations instantly with Gemini Canvas by going to Gemini, enabling "Canvas" in the tools menu, and prompting it to "create a presentation" on a topic or from a file. Gemini generates a themed, multi-slide deck with images, which can then be refined, edited within the canvas, and exported directly to Google Slides.

We’ve discussed Deep Research tools before. Gemini Deep Research acts as a research assistant, with the added ability to draw from your Gmail and Google Drive content.

Ready to learn more about these Gemini options and more? Sign up for our March 25 Virtual Gemini Workshop.

How well can four LLMs predict the 2026 NCAA men’s basketball tournament? That’s what we wanted to find out. We gave four generative AI chatbots the following prompt, using the highest level of thinking model on each one.

The prompt: The NCAA men's college basketball tournament starts this week. Act as an expert on college basketball and historic trends in the NCAA men's basketball tournament. Predict the winners of the first round men's NCAA basketball games for 2026. Then predict the next round and the next until you have one champion. Take your time and try to make the best predictions possible.

The results: Here are links to follow the brackets from Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and Grok on ESPN.

National Champion: Arizona
Final Four: Duke, Florida, Arizona, Iowa State
First-round upsets: 8 (TCU, South Florida, Utah State, Missouri, Iowa, St. Louis, Akron, Santa Clara)
Biggest upset: 12-seed Akron over Texas Tech
Top 16 seeds to reach the top 16: 14 (5-seed Vanderbilt and 5-seed St. John's)

National Champion: Arizona
Final Four: UConn, Florida, Arizona, Iowa State
First-round upsets: 5 (Missouri, Iowa, VCU, St. Louis, Akron)
Biggest upset: 12-seed Akron over Texas Tech
Top 16 seeds to reach the top 16: 15 (5-seed St. John's)

National Champion: Duke
Final Four: Duke, Houston, Arizona, Iowa State
First-round upsets: 5 (Northern Iowa, Iowa, Texas A&M, Miami of Ohio, St. Louis, Hawaii)
Biggest upset: 13-seed Hawaii over Arkansas
Top 16 seeds to reach the top 16: 14 (9-seed Iowa and 5-seed Wisconsin)

National Champion: Duke
Final Four: Duke, Florida, Arizona, Michigan
First-round upsets: 3 (South Florida, Iowa and VCU)
Biggest upset: 11-seed VCU over North Carolina
Top 16 seeds to reach the top 16: 15 (5-seed St. John’s)

We will keep you update on how well each performs in upcoming newsletters.