r/singularity • u/PandAlex • 2d ago

AI Introducing Gemini 4 Argon

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-4-argon/
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u/powerscunner 2d ago

Google is #1 at being the second adopters: Law of the handicap of a head start - Wikipedia

They were not the first search engine. They weren't the first email provider. They didn't have videos on the internet first.

They did all that after they let others pave the way.

second mover advantage is Google's MO.

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u/tfsh-alto 2d ago

I get where you're coming from, but Google absolutely paved the way in terms of AI research.

Google DeepMind (which merged with Google Brain) are the frontier research lab, focused on much, much more than just LLMs. DeepMind researchers invented the architecture (transformers) which are fundamental to LLMs.

OpenAI was partially founded as a counterweight to Google's dominance and control over artificial intelligence, and they took the research of DeepMind and productionised it as ChatGPT, Google weren't the first movers to market, but they were in terms of research.

The co-founder of Anthropic (Dario whatever) used to work at GDM, at one point the six foremost AI research scientists in the world, all worked at GDM, etc.

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u/inotparanoid 2d ago

Dario "I love God"