The next chapter of our AI momentum

https://blog.google/company-news/inside-google/message-ceo/next-chapter-ai-momentum/

24•colesantiago•1h ago

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tosh•55m ago

can anyone with corporate background decipher if that is good for demis or not?

colesantiago•50m ago

It is good for Demis and Google overall.

This is a promotion for Demis and this could be a path for Demis to be CEO of Alphabet in the future in the AI era.

Google already invested in Discovery Loop (Jeff Dean, Orol Vinyals, Quoc Le and Sanjay Ghemawat's company), so what is happening is still a win in investment terms.

The question is about Sundar's future at Google, he is a mobile era CEO at Alphabet and I would hazard a guess he will probably step down in less than 3 years.

sashank_1509•32m ago

I agree sundar will step down but I’m not sure if this means they’re grooming Demis to takeover. I suspect not, and someone else might take over.

aix1•26m ago

> this could be a path for Demis to be CEO in the future in the AI era

His current title is CEO of Google DeepMind. Becoming Chief Scientist of Alphabet seems to be a step away from the path to replacing Sundar, no?

tosh•24m ago

ty!

lokar•14m ago

My impression, inside and out of G, was that Sundar (and Ruth) were about scaling down R&D expenses (as a fraction of revenue), and focusing on exploiting the monopolies.

Perhaps now there could be a shift back to investing in R&D to get fresh monopolies.

junesix•11m ago

I don't see Demis becoming CEO. He's a scientist and researcher. He wouldn't want to be bogged down by minutiae of corporate politics, org structure, government relations, mobile hardware, etc. Chair lets him have authority to explore any path of interest without overhead of operations.

xnx•54m ago

> Lastly, after an incredible 27-year run, Jeff Dean is at a moment where he wants to try something new, and we’re excited to support him in that. Jeff and Google Senior Fellow Sanjay Ghemawat are launching an independent public benefit corporation to accelerate discoveries in ML, science, and engineering.

Oof. Good for Jeff and Sanjay (who just joined Twitter), bu that is a big loss for Google. Google stock is down 5%. It might not be much of an exaggeration to say these two are worth ~$200 billion.

650•32m ago

The first sentence is quite telling

>We’ve got amazing talent, world-class compute and products…

Products are third on the list. Google is an incubator for talent first and foremost. Products are an afterthought

add-sub-mul-div•23m ago

If these products are the place that talent has brought us, of what use was the talent?

giwook•16m ago

My opinion is that you're reading way too much into this. Talent is obviously first. Without that you have no products worth speaking of.

thewebguyd•15m ago

Hasn't that always been the case with Google? Outside of a few that are mostly good and have stuck around, I've always seen Google has having great tech but being quite bad and making products out of it.

garlic_enjoyer•10m ago

I was about to invest in Google, but your compelling observation has swayed me. Now it's obvious to me they are a dying company.

sgt101•7m ago

"Onwards!"

These guys...

0x70run•4m ago

miss me with the AGI nonsense

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