Google, every mention
113 scenes (said by Ranjan Roy), the whole family · ← back to Google
every year anyone Alex Kantrowitz 2228M.G. Siegler 243Ranjan Roy 193Sridhar Ramaswamy 46Andy Yen 35Stephen Morris 30James Manyika 28Ed Zitron 26Matthew Prince 24Nick Fox 22
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Software’s Epic Comeback, Meta’s AI Layoffs Blunder, South Korea Stock Market Chaos
- ▶ 30:23 Ranjan Roy I mean, these companies have always been pretty heavy in terms of overall employment relative to the actual, like, cash generating parts of the business, whether it's Google or Meta.
Big Tech’s Insane Hidden AI Spending, Ranking Anthropic vs. OpenAI, AI For Travel Debate
- ▶ 3:34 Ranjan Roy Remember, Google, uh, Meta, these are cash-generating operations. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:20 Ranjan Roy Google, a hundred eighty-seven billion dollars.
- ▶ 31:32 Ranjan Roy Google, between their cloud and consumer businesses, that's not going anywhere either.
- ▶ 57:51 Ranjan Roy Kantrowitz, TripAdvisor, travel booking, combing, Google Flights, eval, we should construct.
What Happens If AI Fails?, Subprime Data Center Crisis, How Bad Can SpaceX Get?
- ▶ 7:02 Ranjan Roy And we're gonna get into Google's 7 times in the scene
Kimi K3 & AI’s Price War, What’s Happening To Google?, OpenAI’s Partner Trouble
- ▶ 44:40 Ranjan Roy Actually, you, you can even feel that big company, uh, under, like, in the same article it talked about Google Counter, co-founder Sergey Brin and others were advocating for Google to move faster to seize opportunities in AI coding, but… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:40 Ranjan Roy Actually, you, you can even feel that big company, uh, under, like, in the same article it talked about Google Counter, co-founder Sergey Brin and others were advocating for Google to move faster to seize opportunities in AI coding, but…
- ▶ 45:27 Ranjan Roy Not, not the lean fighting machine that Sundar just somehow reorg into this is back to like Google chat, hangout, whatever the product names, whenever they all just were ridiculous and kind of like stacked on top of each other.
- ▶ 45:27 Ranjan Roy Not, not the lean fighting machine that Sundar just somehow reorg into this is back to like Google chat, hangout, whatever the product names, whenever they all just were ridiculous and kind of like stacked on top of each other.
OpenAI Finally Ships Its Superapp, Meta’s AI Price War, ChatGPT Cheating At Brown
- ▶ 55:49 Ranjan Roy Then I can in the New York City area where I've been for ever, or especially like I can't get to JFK without a Google map because I'm just so dependent on, ah, on maps.
Big Technology AI Summit (full): Greg Brockman, Mike Krieger, Aaron Levie & Friends of The Podcast
- ▶ 1:47:26 Ranjan Roy Google and Gemini. 2 times in the scene
Are AI Glasses Over? + Big Technology AI Summit Audience Questions
- ▶ 20:39 Ranjan Roy Google and Gemini, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:39 Ranjan Roy Google and Gemini, 2 times in the scene
SpaceX’s IPO Triumph, Anthropic’s Fable Fumble, OpenAI’s Price War
- ▶ 15:40 Ranjan Roy I guess we extrapolate that out after the Google and Anthropic contracts a little bit more, losing four billion dollars a year. 3 times in the scene
Did Apple (Finally) Get AI Right At WWDC?, Anthropic’s Worry, Microsoft vs. OpenAI
- ▶ 11:34 Ranjan Roy And actually I'll admit I have started using Google's follow on AI mode where you do a Google search 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:21 Ranjan Roy Does that have to make sure, mean that your iCal is connected to your Google Calendar if you're a Google Calendar customer?
- ▶ 17:41 Ranjan Roy Um, like the way Google assistant is integrated into the overall phone is all of this.
Warning Signs For The AI Boom, Anthropic Passes OpenAI, Robinhood’s AI Trading
- ▶ 39:11 Ranjan Roy I'm just glad I got a four terabyte hard drive like last fall when I was trying to export all my Google photos, but never successfully did because they make it a real pain, but I, I thought you were going to say Ferrari.
Is OpenAI Ready To IPO?, The Datacenters in Space Myth, The Kids Boo AI
- ▶ 26:50 Ranjan Roy Uh, traditional Google search to AI mode, and everyone who is just using Google search is now ending up whether they want to or not using AI. 2 times in the scene
Satya Nadella’s OpenAI Concerns, Google’s Next AI Model, The AI Monet Prank
- ▶ 10:05 Ranjan Roy Um, like you have Google just going, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:41 Ranjan Roy And I know Gemini and workspace versus Gemini, but I still versus Microsoft.
- ▶ 14:46 Ranjan Roy Certainly Google has a more AI native feel the way even ask questions in maps.
- ▶ 19:41 Ranjan Roy Apple, Microsoft, Meta, and Google, and Amazon. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:24 Ranjan Roy Um, I got to say though, like in maps, the ask maps feature has started to become more part of my life. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:18 Ranjan Roy That's Google.
The Unlikely Anthropic & SpaceX Marriage, OpenAI Trial Revelations, AI Layoffs Or Cope?
- ▶ 9:03 Ranjan Roy Like, and again, working in the industry and seeing where this technology is going to go and believing this is going to transform enterprises in most knowledge work as well, but it's still more everyone from a Google to a Meta to OpenAI to…
- ▶ 48:23 Ranjan Roy Um, these companies got very big, and especially in big tech and the Metas and the Googles of the world, so I do believe
OpenAI’s User Growth Miss, Musk vs. Altman In Court, Prediction Market Ban
- ▶ 15:55 Ranjan Roy Then you have Google, actually within Google Shopping,
- ▶ 15:55 Ranjan Roy Then you have Google, actually within Google Shopping, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:29 Ranjan Roy Um, unless they're almost accepting Google will beat them at it, unless I, and which, which is not unreasonable. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:36 Ranjan Roy I guess that chat bot, I guess Google, Google has shown. 3 times in the scene
Anthropic’s Mythos Dilemma, Violence Against AI, Tokenmaxxing at Meta
- ▶ 21:43 Ranjan Roy Why give it to Google and everyone else?
- ▶ 23:23 Ranjan Roy So, like, if anyone is going to make it, but by the same token, I mean, we've seen so much back and forth between who is leading and what, and is it going to be Gemini, or is it going to be
- ▶ 44:02 Ranjan Roy Like, and then you have Google trying to be super like, uh, emotional and sentimental and like, and still it was just the most random, like not connected to Gemini ad.
OpenAI’s Superapp Is Coming, Jensen on Jobs, Bezos’s $100 Billion Automation Fund
- ▶ 3:29 Ranjan Roy And is it because of Google? 2 times in the scene
AI Backlash Intensifies, Nvidia GTC Preview, Meta’s Embarrassing Delay
- ▶ 12:29 Ranjan Roy Every time you do a Google search, even without AI overview, there's plenty of artificial intelligence that's been built into.
- ▶ 22:16 Ranjan Roy Well, again, it's, it's like, uh, going back to the, when you do a Google search, it's funny. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:24 Ranjan Roy I literally had someone who was like the most anti AI person I know screenshot me a Google AI overview, not recognizing what had just happened. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:40 Ranjan Roy It's kind of like all relatively baked in the product when you're going to do a search on Google maps now. 2 times in the scene
AI Revenue Explodes, Dario’s Memo, McDonalds’ CEO’s Baby Burger Bite
- ▶ 11:37 Ranjan Roy Meanwhile, Meta is starting to get into the agentic commerce game, and they've, like, announced that they might even have a web browser, that they're gonna add some level of, kind of, commerce, and we've talked about them as the dark horse…
- ▶ 31:05 Ranjan Roy Like the Excel add in and Google sheets that you can use it directly in there, which still why Gemini is not great within the Google workspace environment is ridiculous to me.
- ▶ 31:05 Ranjan Roy Like the Excel add in and Google sheets that you can use it directly in there, which still why Gemini is not great within the Google workspace environment is ridiculous to me.
- ▶ 50:32 Ranjan Roy That, I don't know, to, to, to move right back into the kind of Gemini world of like, just brutal battle and competition in terms of consumers downloading your app and using it.
Anthropic vs. The Pentagon, Bloodbath at Block, The Citrini Selloff
- ▶ 32:27 Ranjan Roy Like, Google, kind of, like, trademark brand name, whatever, of, like, AI for the average person. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:55 Ranjan Roy Um, the Googles and the Facebooks for a while, I would say, but like, like there, there is, like, it's one sector of the economy that became the most valuable sector of the economy for a 15 year period or whatever it is, 10 year period,…
Is Something Big Happening?, AI Safety Apocalypse, Anthropic Raises $30 Billion
- ▶ 53:28 Ranjan Roy Do you know the, this is the most, like, twisted thought, but I, uh, like, I almost, again, this hierarchy of risk, it's almost like, like, someone going to one of these services and learning how to make a bioweapon is very bad, but it's…
Software In Shambles, OpenAI vs. Anthropic Super Brawl, Amazon’s Struggles
- ▶ 26:18 Ranjan Roy Is Google gonna kill everyone?
- ▶ 42:31 Ranjan Roy Just like, okay, so, and actually this can be a whole other rant for another day, but the photo tax, now Google Cloud and Apple keep making me pay more and more money to just store my photos, and I had both services, and I'm paying, I…
- ▶ 42:54 Ranjan Roy So Google, I'm gonna, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:32 Ranjan Roy I think that's like the, I mean, again, Azure, Google Cloud have been like, 2 times in the scene
Is Google's Gemini Winning?, Thinking Machines Drama, Claude Cowork’s Potential
- ▶ 14:58 Ranjan Roy I still like the idea that it's Sundar's McKinsey days that taught him the key to organizational, like, uh, transformation and reorgs and the move to bring in deep mind and like, you know, like actually centralized, like the AI development… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:09 Ranjan Roy I've been researching and now Google based on old school machine learning serves me a lot of pixel content in the Google app in terms of news stories and stuff like that and push notifications.
Claude Code’s Shining Moment, ChatGPT for Healthcare, End Of Busywork?
- ▶ 30:05 Ranjan Roy But saying that Google did manage to do that even with an advertising business and then building the behemoth of Google, Google cloud and Google workspace. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:05 Ranjan Roy But saying that Google did manage to do that even with an advertising business and then building the behemoth of Google, Google cloud and Google workspace.
- ▶ 30:05 Ranjan Roy But saying that Google did manage to do that even with an advertising business and then building the behemoth of Google, Google cloud and Google workspace.
AI & Tech 2026 Outlook: ChatGPT 1 Billion, AI Shopping, Apple's Big Year, AI Love Boom
- ▶ 7:11 Ranjan Roy Google Glass.
- ▶ 9:44 Ranjan Roy And Google puts them in a good position as well.
- ▶ 16:08 Ranjan Roy I think, I think Gemini's Google definitely starts to catch up. 2 times in the scene
OpenAI’s Potential, Google’s Speedy Model, Copilot Hits Turbulence
- ▶ 9:42 Ranjan Roy Um, remember we were, we were bing boys back in the day, and then, uh, Bard, and.
OpenAI’s 2026 Priority, Disney’s AI Play, Datacenter Buildout Trouble
- ▶ 6:59 Ranjan Roy But what I was thinking about when I read your story is, you know, how did Google approach this? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:05 Ranjan Roy How did Microsoft enterprise first from the beginning and then kind of working their way towards some kind of consumer applications, Google going in the opposite way, having just a massive consumer business and then building Google cloud… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:15 Ranjan Roy Another element of this I thought was interesting was that they had sent the cease and desist letter to Google, one of, uh, a brown copyright infringement. 4 times in the scene
AI Device Wars Heat Up, RIP Metaverse?, Netflix Acquires Warner Brothers
- ▶ 21:53 Ranjan Roy When I go to the Apple store, when I go to the Google store, when I was buying my Meta Ray-Bans, the poor store associate, just me gnawing on the thing to the side.
Google Pushes OpenAI, Bezos Returns, AI’s No. 1 Hit
- ▶ 5:58 Ranjan Roy And in terms of the overall compute story that open AI is at the center of, and we'll get more into again, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:08 Ranjan Roy And I think like, especially in Google's early years or a year of bard and duet and some stuff showing up in one part of the product and some stuff not, not showing up, you felt it in the product.
- ▶ 22:58 Ranjan Roy I think one thing that is interesting to me, though, and I'm guessing we have plenty of listeners who are Google Suite users, is 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:15 Ranjan Roy Cause like, have you, do you ever use Gemini in docs or sheets? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:58 Ranjan Roy And in the same week, you have the Google training on their own TPU story.
- ▶ 45:18 Ranjan Roy Um, but Sundar is gonna lead Google through the, through the turbulent times and the storms, cuz that man, to pull this off already.
- ▶ 52:07 Ranjan Roy I was actually testing and asking, uh, Gemini around like which products are better, uh, around like different Google offerings or like, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:07 Ranjan Roy I was actually testing and asking, uh, Gemini around like which products are better, uh, around like different Google offerings or like,
OpenAI and Microsoft’s Grand Bargain, Sam Altman’s Next Three Years, A New Humanoid Robot
- ▶ 8:06 Ranjan Roy If Google wants to put Gemini on Azure, please do so. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:36 Ranjan Roy We talked the other day about DeepMind and, like, the cell to structure model that's making massive advances in cancer research.
- ▶ 50:15 Ranjan Roy Well, yeah, I think, I mean, Alex had a tweet in our prep doc, um, that was very interesting to me because Sundar basically like proudly saying, a 150 Google cloud customers processed one trillion tokens and then had some kind of standard… 2 times in the scene
OpenAI’s Risky Browser Bet, Amazon’s Mass Automation Plan, Clippy’s Back
- ▶ 14:36 Ranjan Roy This is the kind of work that I still, it blows my mind that Google for how much better Gemini standalone has gotten, like why this stuff does not work in Gemini and regular Gmail and sheets and how they don't work together well, because… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:21 Ranjan Roy Whether it's a Microsoft or a Google or even an Apple or whoever else, I think OpenAI is gonna lose that battle any day of the week. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:44 Ranjan Roy And what perplexity was doing is, you know, like if you ever search something in Google and add Reddit at the end, you'll get some amount of information in the Google search results. 4 times in the scene
Erotic ChatGPT, Zuck’s Apple Assault, AI’s Sameness Problem
- ▶ 35:38 Ranjan Roy And, and again, in the deep mind cancer example, we are starting to harness it in ways that are incredible, but still like at the core, it's still not fully understood and known.
AGI or Bust, OpenAI’s $1 Trillion Gamble, Apple’s Next CEO?
- ▶ 7:58 Ranjan Roy And we, I mean, you on stage with Google hearing about how it's algorithms, not just raw compute.
- ▶ 14:17 Ranjan Roy The stuff of legend, but, but overall the idea that they're gonna still be able to operate truly in that kind of like intense innovation way versus they're starting to get a little Google cloudified, I think, uh, I think is another risk to…
- ▶ 34:00 Ranjan Roy And again, like, I think what I saw was at Google.
- ▶ 41:08 Ranjan Roy This is not that different than imagine a Google or like Amazon and Anthropic.
- ▶ 46:26 Ranjan Roy Google flights. 2 times in the scene
OpenAI’s & NVIDIA's $100 Billion Marriage, Meta’s Sloppy Vibes, TikTok Deal Arrives?
- ▶ 33:58 Ranjan Roy It's funny, I was just at a dinner, and like, of course, this conversation came up, and someone at the table was a VC, and like, literally there, there was, so, and someone asked them, who's not anywhere in the financial world, and the…
- ▶ 49:57 Ranjan Roy Like, Google is only letting you create two to three VO videos a day, which are quite good, even as, like, a Gemini Pro subscriber.
Revealed: OpenAI Tells Us ChatGPT's Major Use Cases
- ▶ 10:55 Ranjan Roy Whereas if this was produced as a slick PDF, like from a Google,
Do We Care About The iPhone Air?, Nepal's Discord Revolution, San Francisco’s 996 Culture
- ▶ 30:27 Ranjan Roy Important that suddenly Oracle might be in the, in the camp of the hyperscalers like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, in terms of cloud computing with this one contract.
Google’s Best Week Ever, AI’s Rising Costs, Putin and Xi’s Immortality Quest
- ▶ 15:48 Ranjan Roy I mean, which is again, you can, I I'll agree with you that like putting Gemini into Siri somehow, and I'm curious how data sharing works on that side, whether it's all like, uh, completely walled off.
Anthropic’s Potential, AI Video Gets Crazy, Market Bubble Approaching?
- ▶ 14:59 Ranjan Roy And to me, even for Google, that is actually one of the more interesting parts that the entire business has been built around kind of like fast adoption, slow, like Gmail and Google workspace in the past was just get it in everyone's hands…
- ▶ 24:14 Ranjan Roy At a certain point, especially at that scale, are you going to start running into the Googles of the world or, or the hyperscalers more and more regularly versus you, every individual software engineer is ready to pay you 200 bucks a… 4 times in the scene
$100 Million AI Engineers, Vending Machine Claude, Legend Of Soham
- ▶ 54:38 Ranjan Roy Actually, wait, that's what, Google strives for Tenex engineers.
OpenAI and Microsoft Tension Boils, Amazon’s Job Automation, Zuck’s Spending Spree
- ▶ 21:49 Ranjan Roy I literally, like, I grew up in the Boston area, and when I was first driving and before any kind of Google Maps, I literally knew how to get all over the city, all around my town, just by memory. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:09 Ranjan Roy And, and I mean, in a way, even like the deep mind acquisitions of long ago in AI with the big tech giants, maybe aqua hirezition has been
Apple’s AI 'Gap Year' at WWDC?, Elon Vs. Trump Goes Nuclear, NYTimes’ OpenAI Attack
- ▶ 20:18 Ranjan Roy Like, I remember, I had switched to the Pixel when it first came out, and talking to. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:48 Ranjan Roy It has Gemini directly integrated as I'm trying to talk to Siri.
Mass AI-Driven Unemployment, NVIDIA Surges, CEOs' AI Avatars Unleashed
- ▶ 24:24 Ranjan Roy We just came off a couple of good weeks of Google I.O. and, uh, OpenAI announcements and all these kind of things, but, uh, the competition is going to be there and only increase.
OpenAI's Jony Ive Moment, Anthropic's Big New Model, Google In AI Mode
- ▶ 27:47 Ranjan Roy A lot of other, Google is getting a lot better at that, but like you can't just depend on one part of that stack and hope for it.
- ▶ 44:36 Ranjan Roy I think, like, again, these are, it's the stress testing, and there's gonna be problematic areas, but I, I think I'm more scared about VO three, Google's new video model, than, uh, than this kind of stuff is still kind of at the absolute…
Is ChatGPT The Last Website?, Grok’s System Prompt, Meta’s llama Fiasco
- ▶ 22:37 Ranjan Roy What the future of just kind of like where information goes looks like, because it's not going to be individual web pages that make a little bit or a lot of money from Google display ads, which is what we had 20 years of the web based on. 2 times in the scene