| Let's put it this way. The Q&A on the earnings call yesterday, or about 50% of it went like this: Bank 1> What is Google going to do about not having a SOTA model? Sundar> Everyone uses Gemini 3.6 Flash anyway. We do that internally as well. Bank 2> What is Google going to do about not having a SOTA model? Sundar> Flash is great. We've started our most ambitious training run with Gemini 4. Bank 3> What is Google going to do about not having a SOTA model? Seriously, like 4 banks in a row, same principle. I'll look up the exact wording in the transcript, but for now it's not available and I'm not listening to the 20 minutes of that repeat again. As for your question: Google is training a new major version of Gemini, so yes, Google is trying to get a SOTA model. They've just not succeeded for a while. |
Now, Google DeepMind is still very much pursuing AGI, and do see an LLM as being a component of that, so that's at least one area where it might make sense for Google to invest in a frontier LLM, but otherwise ???
Why aren't Wall St clamoring for Google to get back into robotics to compete with Tesla, or maybe to get into the rocket business to compete in the "data centers in space" business, or maybe get into the dry cake mix business to compete with Sara Lee ? ...