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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Google Assistant comes up on Big Technology, the a16z Podcast, 20VC, TBPN, In Depth
WWDC Reactions, Claude Fable 5 Debuts, McAfee Eyes ESPN Mega Deal | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 5:12 unnamed speaker It's not like people were switching in droves to Android because Google assistant or Alexa was so much better.
Did Apple (Finally) Get AI Right At WWDC?, Anthropic’s Worry, Microsoft vs. OpenAI
- ▶ 17:41 Ranjan Roy Um, like the way Google assistant is integrated into the overall phone is all of this.
Did Google Just Fall Behind Again?, WWDC Preview, Anthropic Files To Go Public
- ▶ 33:38 M.G. Siegler Um, we're a Google assistant, I guess, where.
Trump-Xi Summit, Benioff: "Not My First SaaSpocalypse," OpenAI vs Apple, Multi-Sensory AI, El Niño
- ▶ 54:11 David Friedberg But, but they're going to be up against a formidable competitor, is my point, because I think Google Assistant is going to end up being kind of a real kick-ass product once they get this flywheel gone.
S2 Ep10: How to Learn with the New Rules of AI ft. Peeyush Ranjan
- ▶ 34:01 Peeyush Ranjan Um, and later on, I was working on a Google Assistant and AI related things.
- ▶ 49:01 Abhay Tandon Uh, when you build out Google Assistant and Gemini, did you also notice at that point in time, uh, any key parameters that were more important? 2 times in the scene
Did Apple Get AI Spending Right?, Microsoft & OpenAI’s New Reality, Where’s Stargate?
- ▶ 30:02 M.G. Siegler And Google has as well, sort of transitioning from their original models, Google assistant to
Mistral: Voxtral TTS, Forge, Leanstral, & Mistral 4 — w/ Pavan Kumar Reddy & Guillaume Lample
- ▶ 18:19 Pavan Kumar Reddy It's a little fascinating because I worked on Google Assistant, I think, while back at this point, but it's, I think, um, it's kind of like, when you take a step back, it's fascinating.
Weekly Recap: Tesla's Crazy Plan, USA vs. Google, Palantir CEO on Conspiracy Theories
- ▶ 58:27 Jordi Hays So Google's barred from entering or maintaining exclusive contracts that give it search engine, Chrome, Google assistant, or Gemini app, a monopoly position on a device. 3 times in the scene
Inside Google's Generative AI Reinvention — With Nick Fox and Liz Reid
- ▶ 17:26 Alex Kantrowitz So you were involved deeply with the Google assistant back in the day. 2 times in the scene
Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:31:43 Ben Gilbert Think about Google Now, that predated Google Assistant.
Weekly Recap: Casey Neistat, OpenAI Cracks Math, The Future of ChatGPT, Apple x F1, Intel Layoffs
- ▶ 1:31:29 Jordi Hays Android users have had access to Google Assistant for a long time.
What Apple's Failures Say About AI's Limitations — With M.G. Siegler
- ▶ 12:34 M.G. Siegler So there was Siri, there was Alexa and Google had, um, you know, the Google assistant and Google home products too, which sort of everyone sort of, you know, talks past now, but that was also, you know, a multimillion million unit, um,… 2 times in the scene
Apple’s AI 'Gap Year' at WWDC?, Elon Vs. Trump Goes Nuclear, NYTimes’ OpenAI Attack
- ▶ 29:01 Alex Kantrowitz Now he's been attacking Google from the beginning, but again, at this Bloomberg, uh, conference, he said Google's assistant was a terrible product, uh, and said the tech giant introduces the same artificial intelligence feature year after…
Microsoft CPO: If you aren’t prototyping with AI you’re doing it wrong | Aparna Chennapragada
- ▶ 1:18 Lenny Rachitsky Previously, she was Chief Product Officer at Robinhood, Vice President at Google, where she worked on Google Lens, Search, Shopping, Augmented Reality, AI Assistant, and a lot more.
- ▶ 40:50 Aparna Chennapragada So if you look at like Alexa and like Siri and Google Assistant and all these things, they had a very promising broad interface.
- ▶ 54:02 Aparna Chennapragada And of course, as the LLM's, you know, step function happened now with Gemini, it kind of like works out.
What AI and LEGO Have in Common | Flo Crivello on TBPN April 7th
- ▶ 4:02 Flo Crivello It's like, they don't want to trade time for money like that, which is why I think, like, Google Assistant and Alexa, like, they've been really failures, and I don't think it's because of the technology.
Nikhil Kamath ft. Perplexity CEO, Aravind Srinivas | WTF Online Ep 1. · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 1:32:26 Aravind Srinivas So, and, and they don't share ad revenue on, on, um, on the Google search, if you don't have the Google Assistant as a default.
$200B in UPI,1.3B Aadhaar Users, 943M on ID Platform: Why More Indians Must Know about DPI
- ▶ 1:15:30 Sharad Sharma To open a bank account, you know, it'll be the equivalent of, let's say what, what Google assistant is. 2 times in the scene
How Amazon Rebuilt Alexa From The Ground Up
- ▶ 23:21 Alex Kantrowitz We talked a lot about the buildup to WWC, the reveal, and it was, uh, it seems like every big tech company has almost the same vision, and tell me if I'm wrong here, but like Apple was like, the Apple Intelligence demo was like, um, you…
- ▶ 30:56 Alex Kantrowitz like if people are like on, uh, an Android and they're summoning a Google assistant, uh, whatever the name is that week, or they're on, uh, an iPhone
Why is everyone cloning Deep Research?
- ▶ 14:49 Arush Sehgal And a ton of people are just doing things that they loved on the Google assistant.
- ▶ 32:34 Arush Sehgal Because when we worked on Assistant, at least, and other Google products, the metric has always been, if you improve latency, like, all the other metrics go up.
Lou Gerstner Turned a $3B Loss Into $8M Profit By Ignoring the Obvious Hire
- ▶ 32:10 Sean Weisbrot You know, th there's some things you have no choice, but, uh, you know, I don't use a Google assistant.
BG2 with Bill Gurley, Brad Gerstner & Aaron Levie | Software Valuations, Earnings, Immigration | E02 · Bg2 Pod
- ▶ 53:40 Aaron Levie So, um, so, you know, how do you like, like if, if they bought perplexity, call it Google assistant.
Crafting a compelling product vision | Ebi Atawodi (YouTube, Netflix, Uber)
- ▶ 1:16:09 Ebi Atawodi And there's a different culture in assistant, where it's like, oh, experiment and try things and so on.
The Bard blueprint | Creating value, shipping fast, and advancing AI | Jack Krawczyk (Google)
- ▶ 1:09 Brett Berson Jack is a Senior Director of Product at Google, previously leading the Google Assistant team, and now on the leadership team at Bard as one of its first members.
- ▶ 2:53 Jack Krawczyk MENA became Lambda, and what we were experimenting with was, how do we get this very convincing sounding text-like agent to enter into Google Assistant?
- ▶ 26:07 Jack Krawczyk And we have an incredible GM that oversees both Google Assistant and Bard, Sissy Shao, and she started demonstrating the behavior from the very beginnings of Bard, doing things like deeply reading the research papers,
- ▶ 40:01 Jack Krawczyk I can only give the perspective of what I had working on Google Assistant, which is we were struggling to get 2 times in the scene
The Ultimate AI Roundtable: What Happens Now in AI, Why Google are Vulnerable | E1085 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:50 Des Traynor I could totally imagine Google doing a thing where they give away effectively free Android phones powered by the fact that they now control the intent layer, which is when you say, okay, Google, call me a taxi.
Why Google Never Shipped LaMDA Its ChatGPT Predecessor
- ▶ 9:53 Gaurav Nemade So at that point of time, I think everybody from search to assistant to like some of other teams G board, they started becoming very interested in terms of, okay, how do I start using these BERT models?
- ▶ 17:11 Gaurav Nemade Let's say in Google assistant, right?
- ▶ 21:25 Alex Kantrowitz Was the intent to, like, blend it into Google Assistant, release it as a standalone bot if it could get sort of trustworthy enough?
- ▶ 30:08 Gaurav Nemade Google Assistant, of course, was the big one. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:31 Alex Kantrowitz I mean, you mentioned Google Assistant, but one of the ones that we haven't really talked about was search.
Bundling/Unbundling AI
- ▶ 1:26 Benedict Evans And I, and I thought it was interesting to compare this with, with Alexa and Google Assistant and Siri and so on sort of now almost 10 years ago, which were kind of a full storm because you had machine learning then meant that they could…
Google’s Weird Year + Neeva Goes to Snowflake — With Sridhar Ramaswamy
- ▶ 2:52 Alex Kantrowitz The Google assistant was effectively the right product for this moment, just the wrong execution. 5 times in the scene
No Priors Ep. 29 | With Inceptive CEO Jakob Uszkoreit
550 Million People, One Language, Zero Access to Venture Capital
- ▶ 37:27 Sean Weisbrot I purposely disable Google assistant.
No Priors Ep. 12 | With Noam Shazeer
- ▶ 18:10 Noam Shazeer You know, some of the, you know, we like, like, uh, assistance from, uh, sort of assistant bots from, uh, you know, from large companies, you know, you've got whatever you've got, uh, Siri and Alexa and, uh, Google assistant and, and, you…
How We Grew ARR 3X by Upselling Existing Customers
- ▶ 1:13 Aneto Okonkwo Before starting this company, I was at Google for over seven years as a product manager, where I worked on Voice Search and the Google Assistant, which is part of what led us to the technology insight for this business.
Product lessons from Waymo | Shweta Shrivastava (Waymo, Amazon, Cisco)
- ▶ 40:43 Shweta Shrivastava If you have a Google, you have to download the Google assistant, but you can actually play your playlist in the car.
E122: Is AI the next great computing platform? ChatGPT vs. Google, containing AGI & RESTRICT Act
- ▶ 33:02 Jason Calacanis If you turn on your Android phone, they're going to make Google Assistant go right into Bard. 2 times in the scene
E111: Microsoft to invest $10B in OpenAI, generative AI hype, America's over-classification problem
- ▶ 47:21 Jason Calacanis So I asked this afterwards to see, you know, in a scenario like this, but it could also, if I was talking to it, I could say, hey, which one has availability this afternoon or tomorrow for dinner, and make the phone call for me like Google…
How Amazon Reinvents with Artificial Intelligence
- ▶ 39:03 Alex Kantrowitz They've gone from, ah, search to browser, and browser to mobile operating system, and now they're trying voice computing, you know, with the Google Assistant.
20 Product: Robinhood CPO on The 3 Stages of Product Management, How to Structure and Execute Great Product Reviews, The Secret to Building a World-Class Hiring Funnel in Product Team Building with Aparna Chennapragada
- ▶ 5:52 Aparna Chennapragada Me personally, I worked on Google Assistant, this idea of saying, how do you have like such a personal device that can be your assistant versus a desktop or a laptop?
Power of Storytelling ft. Roshan Abbas, Investor | Entrepreneur | Actor | Director | Producer
- ▶ 44:05 Roshan Abbas Um, what is Alexa or Siri or, you know, okay, Google done for us for a whole generation.
20VC: Sonos CEO Patrick Spence on His Biggest Lessons Building and Growing Blackberry, The Right Way to View Competition and Innovation Cycles & How To Make The Transition From COO To CEO Most Effectively
- ▶ 28:42 Patrick Spence But at the same time, we still work with them on YouTube Music Service, on Google Assistant, and some of these other areas, and I think my Canadian-ness helps in some of those situations, just trying to make sure that we're maintaining a…
Why 'Life Has No Purpose' Is the Most Freeing Thing You Can Believe
- ▶ 4:54 Sean Weisbrot But the difference between, you know, Google's assistant and Siri and Cortana and Alexa is that these big companies have told you what its name is.
1699 UserTesting Grabs $100m Series D w/ $84m in Revenues While Rest Of World Virus Panics, How Will CEO Spend Money?
- ▶ 18:55 Andy MacMillan Uh, I live and die in Google, so I'm a big Gmail, Google assistant, everything.
a16z Podcast | Pulse Check on Consumer Tech Trends 2019, CES and Beyond
- ▶ 1:50 Benedict Evans oh wow, Google's having a really big push in everything has got Google Assistant in this year, or everything has Alexa in, or oh wow, everyone's doing curved screens.
- ▶ 24:18 Benedict Evans And that's where we're seeing, like, the connective tissue emerging, which is the Alexa, Google Assistant, Apple relaunching HomeKit.
- ▶ 28:26 Benedict Evans So it's a switch you can flip on your chip, and they say, right, the chips that we're going to give you next year will have Alexa and Google Assistant and maybe HomeKit in there. 5 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Beyond CES: Connected Home Devices, Voice, and More
- ▶ 13:04 Steven Sinofsky Like, they don't even know if you have Alexa, Siri, or Google. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:18 Benedict Evans well now it's Google Assistant, so instead of it being passive, it'll be active, and you'll ask it a question.
a16z Podcast | Putting AI in Medicine, in Practice
- ▶ 23:29 Brandon Ballinger This is the way speech recognition works on Android phones, is that obviously data is coming in continuously every time someone says, okay, Google, or hey, Siri.
a16z Podcast | Truce for Mobile, Battle for VR
- ▶ 5:04 Benedict Evans Um, so any new Google stuff like Google Messenger or Google Assistant or anything else just appears on the phone automatically.
a16z Podcast | Innovation vs. Invention at Google I/O
- ▶ 3:12 Benedict Evans Yeah, I mean, I think the, you know, when one kind of sat and looked through all the stuff that they've built, there's this huge story around what was Google Now and is now Google Assistant, and it's around everything that Google might… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:28 Kyle Russell On top of that, Google Assistant, basically the modern revisioning of Google Now, their service that's been built into Android, built into the Google app for an iOS. 5 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Apple Watch -- Looking for New Things Done in New Ways
- ▶ 19:16 Benedict Evans I mean, I think, you know, to Stephen's point about platform, this is clearly, you know, and again, this is what speaks to the, again, a sort of thing I talk about a lot, which is kind of a difference between Apple and Google, which is for…
Brian Donohue on Operating Instapaper Through an Acquisition · Y Combinator
- ▶ 53:43 Craig Cannon So, I love rapid reading mode, but would also love a voice enabled mode where the Google Assistant or Siri reads it.
20VC: Why Too Many People Give Up Too Quickly, Why You Should Never Start A Venture Without Owning The Underlying Data & Why We Have Over-Estimated The Ability of Automation with Dennis Mortensen, Founder & CEO @ X.ai
- ▶ 23:38 Dennis Mortensen And you certainly kind of experience this, even just speaking to your Alexa or Google Assistant at home, where some things are, hey, just turning a little bit, uh, too cumbersome for something which is kind of rather simple.
1164 Want Your Own Alexa, Without Amazon Influence? Mycroft Raises $8m For Opensource Voice Stack
- ▶ 2:19 Josh Montgomery Google Assistant didn't exist.
20VC: Behind The Scenes of a $Bn IPO Process, What Startups Can Learn From Teddy Roosevelt's "Five Minute Meetings" and What John Lennon Teaches Founders About Storytelling with Howard Lerman, Founder & CEO @ Yext
- ▶ 23:46 Howard Lerman And the intelligent services of today, Siri, Google Assistant, Alexa, Google Assistant, 4 times in the scene
Josh Wolfe – Seeing the Lux (Capital Allocators, EP.65)
- ▶ 29:32 Josh Wolfe We already have Alexa, et cetera, and Google now, uh, as voice assistants.