Want to use an AI API? Here’s the difference:<p>OpenAI / DeepSeek:<p>1. Generate an API key
2. Install OpenAI client
3. Add your key
4. Make API calls<p>Google Gemini:<p>1. Learn IAM (roles, permissions, service accounts...)
2. Grant access
3. Download key file / authenticate via CLI
4. Figure out which region supports your model (because not all models are available everywhere)
5. Hope you picked the right setup—otherwise, try again!<p>I genuinely believe that if Google cared just 1% more about its users, the end impact would be enormous
Well, fwiw, i found Google's AI Studio - <a href="https://aistudio.google.com/apikey" rel="nofollow">https://aistudio.google.com/apikey</a> which has a similar user flow.<p>Another case of an enterprise shipping their org chart to outside I guess