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Google holds no voting rights or board seats in Anthropic
“They don't have any voting rights. They don't even, they're not even a board observer. They don't have a board seat. They basically are just a purely financial background.”
Jeff Dean leaves Google after 27 years to launch an AI startup
“Google CEO Sundar Pichai also announced that Google DeepMind chief scientist Jeff Dean will be leaving the company after a 27 year run to start, along with Google's senior fellow Sanjay Gemwat, a public benefit corporation to accelerate discoveries in machine …”
DeepMind has lagged behind AI competitors and embarrassed Google for a year
“Google, the deep mind organization has, you know, made some real contributions to the space, but has been lagging. It's been a point of embarrassment. For, I would say, for Google, for, I would say, a year plus. They've always felt behind, even though they cre…”
Google may shift into an Nvidia-style capital partner for AI labs
“I wouldn't be surprised to see Google just shift into more of an Nvidia style role as like a capital partner to a number of Other labs as they, you know, continue to fall.”
Coogan: Employees from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google Signed AI Pause Letter
“There's this open letter from a bunch of lab employees saying like, hey, maybe we should do a mutual pause. Maybe we should all slow down. And I think even some meta researchers signed that as well, but there's like a wide group from OpenAI, Anthropic, a bunch…”
Woo: The AI software race will be won by well-capitalized tech incumbents
“So, I think, in some sense, I think the software game is gonna be won by an OpenAI, Anthropics, SpaceX, Google, maybe about Cognition, and some of these like,”
Gerstner: Google, Amazon, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic are all token constrained
“Google was token constrained. They said if we had more tokens, we'd be able to generate more revenue. Same for Amazon, same for Microsoft, same from OpenAI, same from Anthropic.”
Hays: Google uses Anthropic models and third-party AI tools internally
“Google's been using a bunch of anthropic models. Clearly, they're using a ton of different models and products internally.”
Hays: Google's new model underperforms Composer 2 despite costing 4x more
“It's four times, it costs four times, it underperforms Composer too, even though it's, Roughly four times more expensive.”
Coogan: Cursor, Anthropic, Meta, and Google Will Buy Cerebras Chips
“Every, every lab that has exploding demand, Cursor, Anthropic Meta, and Google, like, unless they have, like, a direct answer to this, I would see them being a buyer in the near term.”
Patel: Google is splitting TPU production between Broadcom and MediaTek
“Yeah, so, so for the longest time Google's had, ah, one main line of TPUs, right? All made by Broadcom, and then sort of next year they've diverged it, right? Where Broadcom makes a TPU, ah, and MediaTek makes a TPU. These two TPUs are focused at different thi…”
Apple Reportedly Rebuilding Siri as OS-Integrated Chatbot 'Campos'
“Apple plans to revamp Siri later this year by turning the digital assistant into the company's first artificial intelligence chatbot, thrusting the iPhone maker into a generative AI race dominated by OpenAI on Google. The chatbot, codenamed Kempos, will be emb…”
Coogan: Apple chose Google Gemini for Siri after blind model tests
“Apple ran a blind test of frontier models and picked Gemini.”
Coogan: Apple is paying Google one billion dollars in AI deal
“The news is that Apple and Google have a deal. We talked to Ben Thompson about it yesterday. Billion dollars going from Apple to Google.”
AI labs offer top researchers packages worth $100M or more
“But with AI companies, including meta platforms, Google, Anthropic, wooing top researchers with pay packages that can be worth a hundred million dollars or more, researchers and engineers have been able to hold out for the most attractive terms, and in many ca…”
Coogan: Disney is picking OpenAI over Google as the winner in AI video
“It does feel like Disney's sort of like picking a winner here in AI video, and they're saying like, we like OpenAI and we don't like Google, which is sort of a bold move.”
Gemini 3 thinking queries match GPT-5 Pro reliability with less reasoning
“I feel like the level of confidence in the brand makes me feel that a Gemini three thinking query that does maybe less reasoning Then a GPT five pro query will be at the same level of reliability.”
The consumer AI market will shift from winner-take-all to a duopoly
“Maybe, maybe there will be a little bit more of a duopoly. There, it won't be such a winner-take-all market even though it has been historically, it's, it has been up to this date.”
Coogan: "Empire of AI" wildly overstates Google data center water consumption
“Empire of AI asserts that a data center is using 1000 times as much water as a city, In reality, it's 22% of the city's water.”
Coogan: Google trained Gemini 3 Pro entirely on TPUs, bypassing Nvidia
“Google trained Gemini three pro on Google's own TPUs. No mention of Nvidia chips.”
Coogan: Nvidia retains monopoly power because Google refuses to sell TPUs
“If TPUs are not for sale, Nvidia does have a monopoly. If Nvidia truly is the only seller in the market because Google is not a seller then yes, they still extract monopoly power from every other buyer because every other buyer says, yeah, I'd love to buy TPUs…”
Coogan: Google's Gemini 3 is currently the best AI foundation model
“Gemini three is definitely a great model. The best model potentially right now.”
Hays: Google bypassing Nvidia for Gemini 3 is not priced in
“This doesn't feel fully priced in yet to either company. But then again, right, it's so hard to predict demand over the next five, 10 years that maybe, maybe it doesn't even matter.”
Gurman: Snap should partner with Google rather than develop SnapOS
“In my mind, they might be just better off sort of lowering their R&D on these things by focusing on their hardware, partnering with a company like Google, and putting their own social layer over Android XR, but obviously they have their own SnapOS.”
Gurman: Apple will probably replace Google's model with an in-house model
“You can also bet, at some point, they'll probably figure out their own model to replace the Google thing, so I don't think it's a long-term bet.”
Gurman: Google to launch smart glasses with Samsung and Warby Parker
“What you're going to see is Google come into this space, too. They're going to launch, you know, their smart glasses with Samsung in a few months, their glasses with Warby Parker and a few other glasses brands in a few months, and there's going to be a lot of …”
Coogan estimates Google Chrome is worth between $90B and $120B
“Daniel says Chrome's worth at least 90 to a 120 billy. I agree. I think 20 is too low.”
Coogan: Amazon lags in AI partnerships and frontier model labs
“Amazon's just not there either on the partnership side or on the core like training frontier lab side.”
Coogan: Google Used Lean Proof Verifier While OpenAI Used Text-Based LLMs for IMO
“Using this program called Lean that is a formal math proof verifier, and there's rumors that Google's building their system to leverage that a lot. OpenAI apparently went way, way down just the text-based LLM reasoning path and had a lot of success there.”
Coogan: Google Acquiring Windsurf Should Have Been Antitrust Rubber Stamp
“This is textbook. They should be able to acquire this company, right? Like, cursors out there. They're not acquiring the market leader.”
Kovacevich: Google, Meta, and OpenAI will lead US against China in AI
“Well, like, who do you think is going to do that? It's going to be Google, Meta, OpenAI, right? It's going to be those companies, right?”
Kovacevich: Court found Google held ad tech monopolies and illegally tied products
“And there were some points for Google, but it was mostly a loss for them. The court found that they had improperly tied some of their ad tech products together and they have a monopoly position And what's called the ad, ad exchange, as well as the ad server, w…”
Srinivas: Google's siloed product teams fail to share lessons
“I think Google is actually the closest to ByteDance of America. If you think about it, they have so many different apps in one umbrella, but they don't share lessons. Like the YouTube team is so different from the Gmail team, sort of from the Chrome team, and …”
Srinivas: Mobile OEMs previously refused search meetings because Google paid too much
“Until now, like, people with OEMs would just not even take a meeting with you. If you ever go to them and say, hey, like, what do you think about using an alternative assistant or an alternative search? They'd be like Google is paying too much money. I'm not g…”
Kilpatrick: Google's Full-Stack Control Extends From Silicon to Model Delivery
“Google controls. From a product perspective, like all the way to how the models are delivered to how the models are trained down to the silicon. So like you can make decisions assuming a bunch of those things are going to be true, which is like a lot of folks …”
Swyx: Google is the only viable challenger to Anthropic's MCP
“I would say that if there were any challenger to MCP, it will come from Google because Google has native integrations to Gmail, calendar, YouTube, what have you, they already launched it and it's already first party in there.”
Kirsten Green likens ChatGPT to Google, opening doors for vertical AI apps
“Jack GPT is to this generation what Google was to the last. If you think about Google is like the place where, you know, the front door, you go there, that's your big search. But if you want to, like, look for real estate, you go to Zillow. If you want to unde…”
Masad: Google's Flutter UX significantly outperforms Meta's open-source infrastructure
“If you go to Google and, you know, use, you know, Flutter, I think that thing is actually much more polished of an experience, because they have a direct incentive to advance the Android ecosystem, for example. And so Facebook, we built really cool pieces of i…”
Scott Wu: AI products will shift from Q&A search to autonomous agents
“And then the other thing that we felt really strongly about was that the product experience was going to shift from this kind of more Q and a text completion style products to basically an agent, you know, and practically I think what that means is I honestly,…”
Lessin: Google leads in AI elements but faces the biggest downside
“And yes, I think they are the company that more than any other company in the world is in the position of both being way ahead in certain elements of AI and like has a huge advantage, but they also have the most to lose, right?”
Lessin: Meta's core ad business faces no AI disruption unlike Google
“They're unlike Google aren't going to get disrupted in their core business on this. They don't have a search business. They don't have a lookup business to disrupt. They have a shit ton of an engagement attention and they sell ads. And you know, what definitel…”
Hays: Consumer AI App Layer Will Be More Competitive Than Model Layer
“This consumer App layer is going to be more competitive in many ways than the foundation model layer because you're competing with Meta, Apple, all these different, you know, Google, et cetera, that have the distribution already.”
Coogan: Google Gemini's underlying tech performance matches OpenAI
“If you look at the performance of the underlying technology at Google with Gemini, it's on par, if not like back and forth with open AI.”
Coogan: Ads in LLM responses make sense and will work fine
“I think it actually makes a ton of sense to put ads in LLM responses, and it'll work just fine, and it's actually very easy.”
Coogan: Apple will keep Google search deal due to 100% margin
“I disagree with that because that, that twenty billion dollars is 100% margin. They don't have to do anything. And they know that like, anytime they need to manage a new business line, there's risk and it could go wrong and stuff. And Google's just the best.”