Google AI Studio

I know I'll sound like a Google shill, but I really don't know how this could compete against what Google AI Studio offers for now. Studio even has free quota (while being completely opaque). I once feel Kagi is some fresh air that we need for search engine. But now it seems to be more and more directly competing against the other LLM web summery products and imo Google/Gemini is light-seconds ahead in that space. The AI Overview is an ultra water downed version of it and it's still somewhat usable. Perhaps this move is signaling that they'll be back focusing on search itself more though (I hope so).

They actually have two "studios" Google AI Studio and Google Cloud Vertex AI Studio And both have their own documentation, different ways of "tuning" the model. Talk about shipping the org chart.

Google AI Studio documentation encourages developers to deploy vibecoded apps, claiming the API key is secure because it is protected by a proxy - however, there are no checks on the open proxy the deployed app exposes, which allows anyone to use the developer's wallet for arbitrary queries. Vulnerable live endpoints are discoverable by a single google search for us-west1.run.app . The proxy processes Gemini requests even if the deployed website has no AI features itself. Not even a documentation update 2.5 months after reporting.

Google's AI Studio does not always seem to work well in Firefox. That is my only usage on Chrome. On top of some web application testing.