Brin: Specialized AI learnings inevitably get merged into general foundation models
Sergey Brin · Sergey Brin, Google Co-Founder | All-In Live from Miami · May 20, 2025 · at 18:39
Sergey Brin, Google co-founder, explains why AI development trends toward unified general models rather than fragmenting into domain-specific models.
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“We are generally able to, after we do that, take those learnings and basically put that capability into a general model. So there's not that much benefit. You know, you could, you can get away with a somewhat smaller specialized model, a little bit faster, a little bit cheaper, but the trends have not gone that way.”
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