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>>Anon84+(OP)
Dunno about you but to me it reads as a failure. It basically has AIAIAI, although they lost much of the ground to other companies whilst having an upper hand years ago. Then they mention 5yr anniversary of alphafold, also one of the googlers did research in the 80s for which he became a candidate for Nobel prize this year. And lastly, there was a weather model.

They tried so hard to be in the media over the last year that it was almost cringe. Given that most of their money is coming from advertising I would think they have an existential crisis to make sure folks are using their products and the ecosystem.

>>sublim+9f
I agree with this take. Their insane focus on generative AI seems a bit short sighted tbh. Research thrives when you have freedom to do whatever, but what they’re doing now seems to be to focus everyone on LLMs and those who are not comfortable with that are asked to leave (eg the programming language experts who left/were fired).

So I don’t doubt they’ve done well with LLMs, but when it comes to research what matters is long term bets. The only nice thing I can glean is they’re still investing in Quantum (although that too is a bit hype-y).

>>pm90+rm
Google has been at the forefront of “AI” and Machine Learning forever. I didn’t appreciate this myself until listening to the Acquired podcast episode

https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/google-the-ai-company