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Re:Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-m... by Hamuko on Thursday February 12, 2026 @03:39PM (#46994794)
I thought that the likes of Android, Google Docs, Google Translate, etc. were fairly successful. Chrome and ChromeOS also seem fairly popular too.
Re:Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-m... by gregable on Thursday February 12, 2026 @03:45PM (#46994887)
A lot of those are getting pretty close to 20 years ago.
Re:Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-m... by atlimar on Thursday February 12, 2026 @04:01PM (#46995101)
This year:

chromeos is 17

android is 18

chrome is 18

google docs is 20

google translate is 20

Re:Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-m... by stock_toaster on Thursday February 12, 2026 @04:56PM (#46995820)
In retrospect, it is wild how good/successful google was 17-20 years ago!
Re:Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-m... by rvnx on Thursday February 12, 2026 @05:02PM (#46995894)
Few years ago, we had Google Bard, the ancestor of Gemini, which was supposed to be an AI LLM, and when you right-clicked the page, it was a fake page with hardcoded sentences in a .js file...
Re:Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-m... by staticman2 on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @09:50AM (#47048086)
> was supposed to be an AI LLM

Are you claiming Bard wasn't an LLM???

Re:Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-m... by signatoremo on Thursday February 12, 2026 @06:39PM (#46996873)
None of them looks like their original form, none would survive without google’s enormous investment.