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Bryk: Perplexity and ChatGPT Search rely on legacy Google and Bing APIs
“So these systems, there are a few of them now they basically rely on like traditional search engines like Google or Bing, and then they combine them with like LLMs at the end to, you know, output some power graphics answering your question. So they, Like, Sear…”
Kant: Major AI labs did not prioritize RL for LLMs three years ago
“And the second was that reinforcement learning was going to be the biggest driver for LLM capabilities. Today, very obvious three years ago was not an opinion held or direction held at either OpenAI or Google or Anthropic or others.”
Patel: Google and Amazon will borrow debt to fund AI infrastructure
“Google and Amazon haven't taken on debt yet for AI infrastructure, but they will, right?”
Google developers internally use a coding tool called Jet Ski
“They use an internal thing called jet ski. And I mean, the simple reason is they have internal versions of everything else. And so if they actually train the, they release the internal version to the external world, it would just make no sense. Like it would j…”
Eskildsen: Turbopuffer ANN v3 searches 100B vectors with 40ms p50 latency
“ANN v. Three can search a hundred billion vectors with a p-fifty of around 40 milliseconds and a p-ninety-nine of 200 milliseconds. Maybe other people have done this. I'm sure Google and others have done this, but we haven't seen anyone at least not in like a …”
Patel: Google and Amazon stocks dropped 10% on combined $380B CapEx
“Google announced a hundred and eighty billion of capex. The stock went down and then Amazon announced two hundred billion of capex and their stock went down. Like, I want to say like 10%.”
Dean: Next-gen Gemini Flash matches or beats prior-gen Gemini Pro
“For multiple Gemini generations now, we've been able to make the sort of flash version of the next generation as good or even substantially better than the previous generations pro, and I think we're gonna keep trying to do that because that seems like a good …”
White: Co-Scientist uses LLM ranking while Robin filters with data and literature
“In co-scientists, their filtration process was other LLMs sort of ranking it with rubrics or like personas. And our filtration process was like literature search and data analysis.”
Fanelli: Anthropic scrapes 6,000 pages per referral, compared to OpenAI's 250
“Google would be a two to one crawl to referral ratio, so for every two pages, they will read, they will send you one visitor. He said OpenAI is 250 to one, so they'll read 250 of your pages and send you one person. And Anthropic was like 6000 to one. So they'l…”
Carlini extracted production models from Google and OpenAI with legal permission
“We ran the attack that let us, yeah, stole several of OpenAI's models. With their permission... We notified everyone who was vulnerable to this attack. Some Google models were vulnerable. Some open AM models were vulnerable. There were one or two other people …”
Patel: Google is co-designing TPU v5 and TPU v6 with Broadcom
“TPU, you know, all the way through to all, TPU v-five, which is the one they're in production of now, and six, and, you know, all these are all gonna be you know, co-designed with Broadcom.”
Patel: Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic are developing multi-datacenter training
“One of the big bottlenecks is how much power and how many chips you can get into a single data center. So, like, A, Google and OpenAI and Anthropic are working on this, right?”
Ludwig: 2B parameter LLMs can run on embedded vehicle hardware
“You can run that model on embedded system.
Definitely.”
Andreessen: Google had internal chatbots between 2017 and 2021 but withheld them
“Between 20 17 and 20, 21, I mean, that was the era of which like companies like Google had internal chatbots, but they weren't letting anybody use them.”
Google, Microsoft, Amazon, OpenAI, and Anthropic joined AAIF as platinum members
“You have Google, Microsoft, Amazon Block, Bloomberg, Cloudflare, OpenAI, Anthropic. Just a platinum member, create a foundation.”
Justine Moore: Veo 3 lacks image-to-video with audio, reverting to Veo 2
“Cause the thing to know about VO three that I think a lot of people don't know until you use it is you actually can't do image to video with audio.
Google hasn't released that yet.
I would assume for trust and safety reasons in the interface, you can start wit…”
Olivia Moore: Google Flow defaults to Veo 2 and fails on mobile
“Flow and VO, it's, like, VO two is actually the default, and you have to, like, navigate a bunch of, like, little hidden buttons to change it to VO three. So there's, like, YouTube videos with, like, millions of hits of just, like, how do I find VO three withi…”
Mallick: Google was first to market with live video API input
“So we were actually the first to market with also video input”
Basu Mallick: Google was first to introduce tool chaining for live APIs
“Again, we were very proud because we introduced tool chaining first, so you could change search and code execution to all kinds of analysis.”
Agarwal: Google AI Overviews Uses Speculative Decoding With Distilled Models
“And this was actually used, so I guess the cool application of this I can mention is the next slide, which is AI overviews at Google. I don't know if people have seen this or this kind of thing. Like, there is this thing that comes up, and that actually uses t…”
Swix: Google's entire SigLIP vision team left to join OpenAI
“I think the most recent notable move, I think the entire vision team from Google Lucas Beyer and all the other authors of Siglip left Google to join OpenAI”
Patel: Google TPU v5e is half the size of TPU v5p
“TPUv-V-V-E is, like the new one, but it's mostly, mostly an inference chip. It's a small chip. It's a little bit, it's about half the size of a TPUv-V-V. That chip, you know, you can get very good performance on, like, Of Lama, 70 B inference, right?”
Rizk predicts Google will soon automatically flag AI-generated media
“The second thing is, frankly, I don't think it's up to you, whether you tell them or not. Very, very soon, like, Google is just gonna mark things as AI generated.”
Dean: Google Search index updates improved from monthly to sub-minute
“So the update rate actually is the parameter that changed the most. Surprisingly. So it used to be once a month. And then we went to a system that could update any particular page in, like, sub one minute.”
Dean: Google moved its entire search index into memory in 2001
“So in 2001, we introduced we put our entire index in memory. And what that enabled from a quality perspective was amazing, because before, you had to be really careful about You know, how many different terms you looked at for a query, because every one of the…”
Borovik: Google built internal AI coding tools in Cider IDE for years
“Being Google, we built a lot of our own tools and, you know, cider, which, you know, folks maybe have heard of is our, you know, our internal IDE and we've had all kinds of, you know, capabilities and tools there for a while. So yes, you know, we certainly hav…”
DeepMind and OpenAI used different reduction methods to solve IMO Problem 1
“Google has one method and then OpenAI AI also have another method but both kind of works. Basically you just reduced any n to three, and then you just do case by case analysis.”
Kilpatrick: Google's implicit caching automatically passes cost savings to developers
“Explicit caching is nice. Like there's definitely use cases where it makes sense, but people want implicit caching. So I'm happy passing the cost saving on to developers. You don't have to do anything. It just works right now and you're saving money.”
Mallick: Gemini officially supports 24 languages but responds in Klingon
“We officially support 24 languages, but you can try talking to the model and cling on and it'll respond to you.”
Google simplifies Gemini Flash pricing to flat 10 cents per million tokens
“So it went from seven and a half cents per million tokens to 10 cents. The sort of way that this was offset was we used to distinguish. I don't know if folks are familiar with this, but we used to distinguish based on input token volume. So it was like over a …”
Sehgal: Gemini Deep Research retains all browsed websites in context
“We actually keep everything in context, like all the sites that it's read remain in context. So if there's a piece of missing information, it can just fetch that.”
Yi Tay: UL2 is a 20B encoder-decoder model using T5 pre-training data
“So I think UL-II is an encoder, decoder, 20 B model. I think when we got it approved, it was, like kind of, you know, it was released as, like, kind of, like, the big brother of T-Five, you know, kind of like, okay, we updated T-Five with, like, a new objectiv…”