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by shubhamkrm
1276 days ago
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> What was last major innovation at Google.. chrome?
20% of company drives profits while 80% is a decorated R&D lab chock full of benefits, upset about cutbacks in their free oatmilk lattes, even though they're not coming to office anyway. Transformers were invented at Google, which is the underlying tech on which GPT is built. I would say that counts as innovation. See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformer_(machine_learnin... |
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Google has done interesting stuff. Ideas, research papers, R&D in AI, Glass, Stadia, leading in all kinds of niches… Google Docs with real time collab editing for example. I’m not arguing against that, and to respond on that thread is a straw man.
But they can experiment all day and come up with all kinds of cool stuff but at end of day you need to monetize and make money. Not grow endless headcount, not build more and more empires of a professional managerial class who care little about actual value and more about their fiefdoms and promotions.
To make money, Google depends entirely on X and unless they quickly course correct, they risk massive disruption to their biz.
Google lost their way. The culture stagnated into one of corporate bureaucracy, red tape, and employees feeling persecuted because the contractor responsible for chocolate crepes on Thursday didn’t show up one week.
They have to start getting in shape. There’s no way around it. Yeah they’ve entrenched themselves but unless they change it will be a slow painful decline. Focus on a few things and do them extremely well instead of 50 different things that ultimately go nowhere. And figure out how to get off the ads lifeline