Palihapitiya says Google's distribution advantage beats raw AI model performance
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Chamath Palihapitiya (Social Capital) discusses Google's competitive advantage in AI distribution against rivals like OpenAI during a live demo of Google Bard on the All-In Podcast.
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“And so if they take BART and they have the confidence now to just integrate it into Gmail or integrate it into these other points where they already have hundreds of millions of users, that's like a really tough distribution barrier to overcome. That's the next step that I think if Google really wants to win here, they have to force distribution of these tools in line to where people are. And if they do that, you're not going to know the difference between 80 and a hundred percent. Someone as sophisticated at Saks may be able to, but the average person will just be like, this is good enough.”
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