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AI labs

3 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Feb 26, 2026 by Reiner Pope · across every show →

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Feb 26, 2026 positive
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Pope: Almost every senior AI researcher passed through Google Brain
“Pretty much anyone who's maybe, I don't know, over 30 and at a large lab has been at Google Brain at some point.”
Reiner Pope Feb 26, 2026 ▶ 0:56 Reiner Pope of MatX on accelerating AI with transformer-optimized chips
Feb 26, 2026 neutral
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Pope: AI labs apply RL to software code, not chip architecture
“Models are extremely good at Rust and Python. They've done a lot of RL on them. They have not done as much RL on Verilog. They've done almost none on, okay, write, write me a markdown file that describes a chip architecture.”
Reiner Pope Feb 26, 2026 ▶ 45:39 Reiner Pope of MatX on accelerating AI with transformer-optimized chips
Apr 7, 2026 neutral
Opinion
Pichai: Google shares the same foundational AI outlook as rival labs
“There are a lot of small attributes, which can probably make a difference, but I don't think at a foundational level, there is a difference in outlook on what the curve is.”
Sundar Pichai Apr 7, 2026 ▶ 18:29 The history and future of AI at Google, with Sundar Pichai
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