Google did not lose the AI race. It quit on purpose. The company is positioned to make more money than every competitor still running in that lane. In a single afternoon, four of the most cited living AI researchers…
Google quits AI race to sell shovels
The real play might be selling the shovels while everyone else fights over the gold. Google's cashing in on every model anthropic ships, even the ones meant to bury gemini. That's not losing, that's just smart business.
Google didn't lose the AI race. It just stopped running and started selling the track. In a single afternoon, four of the most cited AI researchers walked out: Jeff Dean after 27 years, his longtime partner Sanjay Ghemawat, Gemini co-lead Oriol Vinyals, and Google Brain co-founder Quoc Le. That same day, Demis Hassabis stepped back from DeepMind, the lab he co-founded, won a Nobel for AlphaFold,
A lecture from ex-Google Chief Scientist Jeff Dean is up and it walks through the whole AI engineering stack. He covers building LLMs from scratch and scales all the way to coordinating agents. The material lands whether…
