I had Gemini and Claude write my email replies - but only one sounds like me

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ZDNET's key takeaways

  • Gemini powers Help Me Write for efficiency in Gmail.
  • You can use Gemini or Claude to draft context-aware emails.
  • Testing showed Claude is better at matching tone and requirements.

Three years ago, I started using Help Me Write, one of Google's first attempts at applied AI. The writing assistant is built into Google offerings like Docs and Gmail, and I found it could draft whole emails from scratch -- all I had to do was sign off on them. As much as I like Help Me Write, I've noticed the Gemini LLM underpinnings powering it somehow deliver even better results through Google's standalone AI app.

Since I was feeding Gemini my email threads for drafting responses, I decided to compare Claude's performance. After a week's worth of testing, I surprisingly found Anthropic's tools write messages a...

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