WOW!
Even if someone thinks to be well informed about tech,
will for sure find new and valuable info in this amazing story.
Like AT&T and IBM before, Google is inventing the future.
Most of what we call "AI" today directly or indirectly originated from Google.
"Google faces the greatest innovator's dilemma in history. They invented the Transformer — the breakthrough technology powering every modern AI system from ChatGPT to Claude (and, of course, Gemini). They employed nearly all the top AI talent: Ilya Sutskever, Geoff Hinton, Demis Hassabis, Dario Amodei — more or less everyone who leads modern AI worked at Google circa 2014. They built the best dedicated AI infrastructure (TPUs!) and deployed AI at massive scale years before anyone else. And yet... the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022 caught them completely flat-footed. How on earth did the greatest business in history wind up playing catch-up to a nonprofit-turned-startup?"
links
- Geoff Hinton’s 2007 Tech Talk at Google
- Our recent ACQ2 episode with Tobi Lutke
- Worldly Partners’ Multi-Decade Alphabet Study
- In the Plex
- Supremecy
- Genius Makers
- The Great A.I. Awakening (NYT)
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