Microsoft launches new in-house #AI models it says cut costs up to 89% versus OpenAI
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Microsoft’s In-House AI Models Target Lower Inference Costs
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DeepMind Seen as a Strong Contender in Generative Media
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I think out of all of the western labs you lot at gdm have the best shot of winning gen media
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Enterprise Users Often Choose Provider Chatbots Over Vertex’s Model Selection
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Yes people can use many models through Vertex, but when most people at a company “use AI” they go to the chatbot or app for their provider.
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Gemini Deep Think Once Offered a Promising Alternative to GPT Pro
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Also frustrating to me is that Deep Think mode had a huge amount of promise as an alternative to the GPT-5 Pro series but seems to have also been almost abandoned.
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Enterprise Dependence on Gemini Raises Concerns About Frontier Model Performance
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It is not a novel observation at this point, but the collapse of Google’s Gemini as a frontier model series is still astonishing. Unlike Meta & SpaceX, Google has captive Gemini customers at an enterprise level, so the fact that they are pushed towards Gemini 3.1 Pro is a problem
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Quoc Le’s Early Google Language Model Learned From IT Support Messages
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Quoc Le is another true legend in the field of AI. Among many other things, he did fascinating early work on language models at Google. One experiment, many years before ChatGPT, involved building a tech support chatbot trained on real messages sent to the IT department
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Google Discovery Effort Trained a Reasoning Model Before Quoc Le’s Departure
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Took me a while to process this as @quocleix is not only my closest friend at Google, but also a strong supporter of the Discovery "strike" effort that I launched 2 months ago: we united 100+ people across Google, just managed to train a strong reasoning model, and then this news
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Google’s AI Stack Remains Competitive Despite Leadership Departures
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Regarding Jeff Dean's departure, Demis Hassabis's new positioning, and the turmoil at Google Google is not falling apart, and I do not think this means it is losing the AI race. It still has arguably the strongest full stack in the industry: its own TPUs and data centers,
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Google AI Overview Produces an Unexpectedly Poetic and Harsh Description
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Google's AI overview is quite poetically cruel "absolute pain, fear, and sorrow of every single person he harmed, completely breaking his cruel mind and stopping his terrible actions forever"
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LeCun Links Facebook Tenure to Changing Approach to Openness in AI
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One big reason I joined Facebook in 2013 (and not Google) was that openness was in the DNA of company. I didn't know how to advance AI without openness. One reason I left was a mutation in that DNA.