Comment by therealpygon
6 days ago
Especially when Google is in the far better position to come out ahead…imo.
Edit: so as not to simply spout an opinion, the reasoning I believe this is that Google has a real business already and were already deep into ML and AI research long before they had competitors — they just botched making it a product in the beginning. Anthropic and OpenAI meanwhile are paying hand over fist to subsidize user acquisition. Also, “Deepmind”. I don’t think much more needs to be said regarding that team, and Google has been working on AI since before either Altman or Amodei applied to go to college. They have a vast amount of researchers and resources, their own hardware and data centers (already, not “planned”) and it appears to be showing more recently (in my opinion).
And Google has a lot of data that the others don't have.
And TPUs, their own hardware designed specifically for AI, and designed to scale better to larger models.
Data for AI training is increasingly synthesized.
I was more thinking about data to augment inference. Google already "knows" its users.