Google Brain

part of Google

5 statements across 2 episodes · 4 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Apr 20, 2022 by Ben Gilbert · said 43 times in 4 episodes since 2022 · across every show →

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Apr 20, 2022 positive
Assertion Supported
Gilbert: NVIDIA and Stanford matched Google Brain's 1,000 nodes with three
“And so, in 2013, Brian Catanzaro, who's a research scientist at NVIDIA, published a paper with some other researchers at Stanford, which included Andrew Ng, where they were able to take this unsupervised learning approach that had been done inside the Google B…”
Ben Gilbert Apr 20, 2022 ▶ 49:00 Nvidia: The Machine Learning Company (2006-2022) · Acquired
Oct 6, 2025 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Astro Teller: Google Brain Gains More Than Funded All Google X Bets
“Astro Teller, who would take over running Google X after Sebastian Thrun left, he would get quoted in the New York Times in a profile of Google X that the gains to Google's core businesses in search and ads and YouTube from Google Brain Have way more than fund…”
David Rosenthal Oct 6, 2025 ▶ 56:25 Google Part III: The AI Company. Google is amazingly well-positioned... will they win in AI? (Audio) · Acquired
Oct 6, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Google Brain Trained a 9-Layer Neural Network Using 16,000 CPUs
“What they did was they trained a large nine-layer neural network to recognize cats from unlabeled frames of YouTube videos using 16,000 CPU cores on a thousand different machines.”
Ben Gilbert Oct 6, 2025 ▶ 41:53 Google Part III: The AI Company. Google is amazingly well-positioned... will they win in AI? (Audio) · Acquired
Oct 6, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Modern AI Revolution Is Predicated on Google's 2017 Transformer Invention
“The entire AI revolution that we are in right now is predicated by the invention of the transformer out of the Google brain team in 2017.”
Ben Gilbert Oct 6, 2025 ▶ 2:41 Google Part III: The AI Company. Google is amazingly well-positioned... will they win in AI? (Audio) · Acquired
Oct 6, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Pichai Decreed Brain-DeepMind Merger and Gemini Standardization in Mid-2023
“Sundar makes these Two decrees mid-twenty-twenty-three. One, we're merging Brain and DeepMind into one team for AI within Google, and two, we're gonna standardize on one model, the future Gemini, and DeepMind slash Brain team. You go build it, and then everybo…”
David Rosenthal Oct 6, 2025 ▶ 3:08:21 Google Part III: The AI Company. Google is amazingly well-positioned... will they win in AI? (Audio) · Acquired
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