That’s what kills me about this. They’re like, the kings of data - they’ve got (arguably) the best web scraper, as well as tons and tons of compute and consumer data. And some company famous for making a DOTA bot beat them to the punch by a huge margin? That’s pretty pathetic IMHO.

i assume googlers are busy estimating golfballs, answering trick sql questions, and asking each other DEI questions all day. Their PM interviews seem to imply that. Ive never seen a company with that many people resting and vesting ever. I have friends who are PMO at google… they have to waste time with each groups bs processes and management overheard in order to move anything along.

that company needs a massive purge and focus towards execution.

hopefully they can sundar and that cfo. google is a shell of what it once was.

Execs were too conservative and didn't realize the potential. They had a chatbot years ago but didn't release it. See for example this article: https://www.businessinsider.com/google-ai-chatbot-chatgpt-ye...

(Noam Shazeer is one of the authors of the Transformer paper.)