[AureliusDreamer]

A lot of folks here being critical of the partnership because Google hasn’t open sourced all of their models, etc.

Not too defend Google, but they have arguably the deepest AI knowledge in the industry and released many of the fundamental building blocks for today’s AI boom (transformers, Tensorflow, etc.)

[hashtag-til]

Yet, their models are always deemed as second class (see recently Gemini), so I think they are trying to pretend to be "catching up" with vague announcements like this.

Good for shareholders, that's all. Not really sure I believe their "open science" argument.

[mvdtnz]

If Google has such "deep AI knowledge" why do 100% of their AI products suck?

[rvnx]

They have the best unreleased model, for a few years already.

[dbish]

They certainly “had” a lot of the building blocks and creators but most of those people seem to have moved on, and libraries like TF have become less used. I don’t think you can say today’s Google with it’s hand wavy AI products (Gemini with fake demos and still unreleased) and lack of core open source ML tools has the deepest AI knowledge anymore (see Meta for who has overtaken in the FAANGs and a bunch of startups like OpenAI who have taken a lot of the other talent).

[alephxyz]

The proof is in the pudding as the saying goes, and right now Google's llm pudding is neither the tastiest nor the most popular around.