Gemini
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Google Cloud Next 2024 was Google’s most impressive assertion yet that it has the AI scale advantage and is determined to use it.
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The Google Gemini fiasco shows that the biggest challenge for Google in AI is not business model but rather company culture; change is needed from the top down.
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Google could do more than just win the chatbot war: it is the one company that could make a universal assistant. The question is if the company is willing to risk it all.
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Google I/O, The Search Funnel, Product Possibilities
Google I/O was impressive and overwhelming, but the only product that impressed was Search.
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Google Earnings, Search and AI, Building AI Products
Google’s earnings were well-received, but they made me a bit nervous; Google is focusing all their energy on the race between Search + AI and AI > Search.
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An Interview with Google Cloud Platform CEO Thomas Kurian About Building an Enterprise Culture
An interview with Google Cloud Platform CEO Thomas Kurian about Google’s infrastructure advantage and building and enterprise service culture.
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OpenAI’s New Image Model, Graphic Design and Google, More on Security
OpenAI’s new image generation capabilities feel like another AGI domino; then, yes, security is about more than encryption.
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A Google I/O Idea, The Smartphone AI Value Chain, Apple’s Developer Hang-Ups
More on Apple and AI, this time through the lens of Google’s point of integration and where Apple should be in response. Plus, why Apple is so hostile to developers.
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More Chip Curbs?, Google LLM Status Check
Ending the chip ban might be a mistake; I just hope people pushing for more realize that could be wrong as well. Then, Google’s current position with LLMs, and the importance of GCP.
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Google Announces Veo 2, The Empire Strikes Back, Free ChatGPT Search
Google Veo 2 is the next blow-your-mind moment in generative AI, and represents Google maximizing its strengths; OpenAI, though, is steadily working on disrupting Search.
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An Interview with Understanding AI Author Timothy B. Lee
An interview with Timothy Lee about Understanding AI, including the current state of AI, the limitations of LLMs, and who is going to win in self-driving cars.
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Microsoft Earnings; Microsoft and OpenAI, Again; GitHub Copilot Adds Gemini and Claude
Microsoft’s latest earnings call is the clearest indication yet that the relationship between Microsoft and OpenAI is at best misaligned, and at worst on life support.