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OK, so Wall St apparently want Google to get into the (as yet unprofitable) frontier LLM competition. But why? To help any of Google's existing businesses? (doesn't make sense - the smaller much more efficient Gemini 3.6 Flash is much better suited to that).

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 ? ...

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I have the same question you have. WHY? Why does it matter so enormously to have a SOTA model? I don't understand. Clearly Citibank, Barclays, Wells Fargo and another already know but yeah, I don't understand.