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Google's Genie is more impressive than GPT5


It was a busy week in the AI world.

As for the people who are arguing that AI is obviously dead and the whole field was doomed to failure because it's "just statistics" or "just linear algebra", idk, this feels a lot like shifting goal posts. People are starting to realize the sheer weight of Google's TPU farms, while OpenAI talent is getting siphoned off by liquid billion-dollar offers on one side (e.g. Meta) and even more ideological startups on the other (e.g. I've written in the past about'the bitter lesson', which can roughly be summarized as "scaling compute and data will lead to more long term progress than hand crafted heuristics and rules".

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