Google hasn't made their best models public because they're too expensive to run for free.
> Google is getting the asses handed to them, badly.
Bard has 30M active users and isn't even available in large parts of the world. They're in 2nd place - when they were pretty late to the game - that's an odd way to say someone is getting their ass handed to them.
? It's the same with paid models.
I am paying per each request sent to Google Generative AI and this is what I get: https://i.ibb.co/4KCmz55/bard1.png
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And then, given that, why is it worse than the competition?
If you actually have worked in the area of NLP for about 10 years, you would recognize how the work from Deepmind is much more novel and innovative than other groups. OpenAI certainly has great public facing services, and Meta should be congratulated for releasing these models (although I would still prefer the Galactica training data), but academically Deepmind is one of the best groups around.
See https://www.tomsguide.com/news/googles-new-gemini-ai-could-b...
Surely Google can find another team of code monkeys to whip out a frontend if there is money to be made.
I don't think Google is going to pull back from making some more money.
I think the most likely option is that they have a bunch of talented academics who get paid on time to work on what interest them - but they're the stereotypical large inefficient company and they can't coordinate the effort of productionizing some cool models before the competition.
I think your argument is basically that Google has the potential to create the best models because of superiority in the theory of LLMs, even though we hear of no signs from the board, the ceo, or beta releases or product showcases.
But let’s say you’re right. When do you think we would experience the supremacy of DeepMind in our daily lives?
Google is getting the asses handed to them, badly. I figured that the code red would whip them into shape but the rot runs deep.