Google Is Winning on Every AI Front

a year ago

The author secretly preferred DeepMind over OpenAI, trusting Demis Hassabis more than Sam Altman.
DeepMind's AlphaGo and AlphaZero were nostalgic milestones that fueled the author's love for AI.
Despite having resources, DeepMind fumbled and missed the chance to create something like ChatGPT before OpenAI.
Google DeepMind is now leading in AI, with Gemini 2.5 Pro being the top model in various benchmarks.
Gemini 2.5 Pro is fast, cheap, and has a 1 million token context window, surpassing competitors.
Gemini 2.5 Flash, launching soon, is extremely fast and cheap, ideal for edge applications.
Gemma 3 is Google's competitive open-source model, rivaling Llama 4 and DeepSeek-V3.
Google dominates generative AI areas like music (Lyria), image (Imagen 3), video (Veo 2), and voice (Chirp 3).
Gemini 2.5 Pro in Deep Research mode outperforms OpenAI’s Deep Research.
Google is working on Project Astra (assistant) and Project Mariner (computer interaction).
Google continues to publish high-quality research papers and takes AGI and industrial AI seriously.
The author highlights Google's unique position as both an AI and consumer software company.

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