[r_hanz]

Much the same way you can have all the best gear and still fail - Google’s primary strength seems to be the DeepMind group. I’m not affiliated with Google, but IMHO the reason they will slowly die is because their engineering culture has taken a backseat due to their broken hiring practices.

Bad hiring practices aren’t exclusive to them, but from all accounts it seems like their internal focus is on optimizing ad revenue over everything else. I could be wrong or misinformed, but it seems to me like they are playing the finite game in the AI space (DeepMind group aside) while FAIR are playing the infinite game.

*meanwhile MSFT are simply trying to buy their way to relevance (e.g. OpenAI investments, etc) and carve out future revenues (Recall) and Jobs-less Apple is building their trademark walled-garden (AppleIntelligence?). Although the use of unified memory in Apple silicon poses some interesting possibilities for enabling the use of sizable models on consumer hardware.

Overall it seems like “big-tech” is by-and-large uninspired and asleep at the wheel save specific teams like those led by Lecun, Hassabis, etc. not sure where that leaves OpenAI now that Karpathy is gone.

[VirusNewbie]

>ecause their engineering culture has taken a backseat due to their broken hiring practices.

What company do you think has better hiring practices, and subsequently a higher talent pool? Meta is pretty similar to Google's (though with an emphasis on speed over creativity). Microsoft is certainly worse at hiring than the two aforementioned...

[r_hanz]

To be fair, I don’t have any examples of “good practices” readily in-hand. However, I did try to address why I thought others were less impacted by this problem in the second half of my post.