I remember after that release everyone was saying "well obviously google is going to win this, we all knew it, they have the data and the infrastructure"
> That's another problem Google have: they won't stand behind their products until they are outdated.
> That can work in the B2C space but it's horrible in B2B.
My experience differs: (conservative) companies like stability, so calling some very new model "Preview" is a good idea to make it clear to the customer that this frontier model should be treated as more experimental than the default offering.
I mean it was legitimately frontier for all of a week or two, and then OAI and Anthropic made better releases, and then did that several more times over the year. Google’s pace is not cutting it.
I remember after that release everyone was saying "well obviously google is going to win this, we all knew it, they have the data and the infrastructure"
What's more annoying is that so many people say it with a passion. Like it's about their favorite soccer team or something.
More like sects of a major religion. Or, a minor and incredibly expensive religion, in this case.
Correct, but it was preview release. I was referring to GA in my comment.
Does that mean anything at all? They released it. Customers paid for it. Sticking a preview label on it doesn’t change that it was released
That's another problem Google have: they won't stand behind their products until they are outdated.
That can work in the B2C space but it's horrible in B2B.
> That's another problem Google have: they won't stand behind their products until they are outdated.
> That can work in the B2C space but it's horrible in B2B.
My experience differs: (conservative) companies like stability, so calling some very new model "Preview" is a good idea to make it clear to the customer that this frontier model should be treated as more experimental than the default offering.
I mean it was legitimately frontier for all of a week or two, and then OAI and Anthropic made better releases, and then did that several more times over the year. Google’s pace is not cutting it.