Comment by HardCodedBias
13 hours ago
And this is why GDM has to go. It's crazy that when Google is struggling so badly that efforts like this that have no path to revenue at all were funded.
GDM management really thought that they were some kind of charity. UNREAL.
Are you being sarcastic? Even if “Google is struggling so badly” (which it really is not - the narrative will flip again at some point), these efforts will have a lasting impact on the world. Not everything good is about bringing in revenue.
shareholders are pretty unhappy about demis. think about alphafold. huge investments from the company, tens of billions. at a critical time. and absolutely 0 revenue. it got demis a nobel though. as a shareholder you'd be unhappy too.
This line of thought strikes me as very short-term. I’m already a shareholder and employee of the company, but that’s beside the point.
As a shareholder I am up 75% in a year. Alphafold gained experience makes them better suited to succeed with Isomorphic Labs than anyone else. Research on improved translation gave us the transformer.
If you think AI will win but Google will continue failing, there so many better places to allocate your capital right now.
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i feel you. as a google shareholder i am disappointed too.