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Brin admits DeepSeek's release closed the gap with proprietary AI models
“Deep Seek released a really surprisingly powerful model when it was January or so. So that, that definitely closed the gap to proprietary models.”
Sergey Brin: AI development is trending toward unified, shared architectures
“But I do think the trend is to have a more unified model. I don't know if I'd call it a god model. But to have certainly sort of shared architectures and ultimately even shared models.”
Sergey Brin: Language-model robotics are impressive but lack day-to-day robustness
“Robotics, For the most part, I see in this sort of wow stage, like wow, you could make a robot do that with just, you know, this general purpose language model, or just a little bit of fine tuning this way or that, and it's like amazing but maybe not for the m…”
Sergey Brin admits Google was 'quite a ways behind' when ChatGPT launched
“We've come a long way since you know, a couple whatever years ago when ChatGPT launched and we were quite a ways behind.”
Sergey Brin: AI models can win math and coding contests against top humans
“Like, they, you know, can win, like, math contests and coding contests, things like that against, you know, some top humans.”
Brin: Google's free AI tiers typically match the previous generation's pro tier
“Every time we've gone forward a generation, then the sort of the new free tier is usually as good as the previous pro tier and sometimes better.”