Gemini Gets Elementary Addition Wrong, Sparking Doubts About Google

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This post treats Alphabet/Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash as joke-style bearish evidence for GOOGL/GOOG. The poster's core method is simple: test Gemini, Claude, and Grok with the same prompt, “300+140=460, Is this correct? Breakdown?”, and show the results with screenshots. In the images, Claude Sonnet 4.6 clearly points out that the equation is wrong and gives 300+140=440; Grok's Fast mode also answers 440 and shows a column-addition breakdown; while Gemini 3.5 Flash, with the “3.5 Flash” model selected in the screenshot, answers “Yes, that is completely correct,” correctly breaks it down as “hundreds place: 300+100=400, tens place: 0+40=40, ones place: 0+0=0,” but then incorrectly writes 400+40+0 as 460. The poster uses this to mock Google's claims that Gemini 3.5 Flash ranks first and is SOTA on benchmarks such as Finance Agent v2, while still agreeing with a user's false premise on extremely simple arithmetic and self-checking. The title directly says “Puts,” but discloses no options position, expiration date, strike price, cost, price target, Alphabet valuation model, revenue sensitivity, cloud business analysis, or changes in search-ad share. Strictly speaking, it is therefore not a complete investment DD, but rather an attempt to infer market-sentiment risk from a product-quality-incident-style screenshot. Its implicit assumption is that AI assistant capability is an important part of Alphabet's current valuation and narrative; if Gemini, as the core model for Google Search, Workspace, enterprise Agent platforms, and developer APIs, makes basic mistakes in the public user experience, it could weaken user trust, enterprise adoption, and the market's premium for Google's AI leadership. Official materials do show that Google released Gemini 3.5 Flash on 2026年5月19日 and described it as the default model for the Gemini app and AI Mode in Search, positioning it as a high-performance, low-latency model for agentic workflows, coding, and enterprise tasks; the Google DeepMind model card also lists results on evaluations such as Terminal-bench, MCP Atlas, and Toolathlon. However, the poster directly extrapolates from a simple arithmetic failure that may be reproducible or partially reproducible to a decline in Alphabet's stock price, and the evidentiary chain is very weak. The most important flaw is that LLM front ends can vary depending on whether tools are invoked, whether Python/calculator is enabled, the specific system prompt, temperature, region, and account configuration; commenters also showed cases where Gemini did not make the mistake, and pointed out that in some screenshots the model called Python to obtain the correct answer. This suggests the issue may be the Gemini App's tool routing or Flash-mode strategy, rather than a failure of the underlying model's overall capability. Another flaw is that Alphabet's business is highly diversified, and search ads, YouTube, Google Cloud, Android, Waymo, and capital returns may all affect the stock price more than a single Gemini screenshot. The post is more a negative-sentiment observation about Google's AI product experience and marketing claims than a fundamental analysis sufficient to support a clear valuation conclusion.

Discussion Summary

The new comments continue to focus mainly on reproductions and mockery, with more users posting screenshots of Gemini Flash/Flash-Lite/Meta/ChatGPT and others also accepting false premises or “stubbornly insisting” on simple arithmetic. The more substantive discussion centers on: an LLM itself is not a calculator; whether it uses tools, code execution, search, or extended/thinking mode can significantly change the result; Pro/higher thinking levels are usually more stable. Some engineering users complain about the release/deprecation cadence of Google models and poor consistency in production environments, while others question benchmark overfitting, training contamination from AI slop, and high inference costs. Overall, there is still little in the way of positions or serious investment arguments, but it reinforces the community’s negative perception of the Gemini experience, reliability, and enterprise adoption risks.

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Google has launched Gemini 3.5 Flash, and it is one of the default models for the Gemini app and Search AI Mode.
Google's official blog says 3.5 Flash was released on 2026年5月19日 and has been made available for the Gemini app, AI Mode in Search, API, AI Studio, Android Studio, and enterprise platforms, and that it is the default model for the Gemini app and AI Mode in Search.
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Gemini 3.5 Flash is positioned in Google's marketing as a high-performance model for agents, coding, and complex workflows.
The official blog says it is designed for complex agentic workflows, coding, and long-horizon tasks; the DeepMind model card also states that its use cases include agentic workflows, coding tasks, and multi-week enterprise processes.
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Gemini 3.5 Flash exceeds Gemini 3.1 Pro on several official benchmarks and scores 76.2% on Terminal-bench 2.1, 83.6% on MCP Atlas, and so on.
Google's official blog and the DeepMind model card both list these benchmarks and state that 3.5 Flash exceeds Gemini 3.1 Pro on some coding and agentic evaluations. However, this is Google/DeepMind's own disclosure and should not be treated as independent market validation.
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Gemini 3.5 Flash says “300+140=460” is correct, proving that its math capability has severely failed.
The main post's screenshot and some comment reproductions show Gemini incorrectly agreeing with the user's premise under that prompt; however, other commenters posted correct answers and noted that whether Python/calculator tools are invoked affects the output. Therefore, it can support the claim that a basic error exists under certain front-end or routing conditions, but it is insufficient to prove a systemic failure of the model's overall mathematical capability.
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This Gemini arithmetic error is sufficient to constitute a bearish basis for Alphabet's stock price.
The main post provides no position, valuation model, user-loss data, enterprise-customer impact, or revenue-sensitivity analysis; Alphabet's performance drivers also do not depend solely on the quality of a single Gemini output. The claim is more of a community sentiment judgment than a validated investment thesis.

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