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Look how well the stock has done since IPO. Google has survived all competition thus far. For this reason, given Google's 2-decade track record, I trust google management more than I trust some writer. It's a long-shot bet with huge potential payoff.

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Here's the thing, a publication will peddle several hot takes like these for fanboys on social media to utilize as a citation to prop up their flimsy opinions, thus driving traffic to them. The opinions themselves don't matter, they don't even need to stand by them. What counts is revenue from ads.

> What counts is revenue from ads.

You’ll be shocked when you find out what’s paying for Google’s AI development

What's that got to do with The Verge? Jackshit.

agree 100% with this

Wouldn’t it It would be enough for Google to release something as good as ChatGPT-4, for basically free, crushing any competition. Then going back to doing whatever they want ?

they are probably running away from it to avoid a bunch of law suits. Google can't simply read other's websites and sell it as there own content.

No, there is no going back anymore, for many queries, LLMs are superior to search that came before. Google is certainly at an advantage because their traditional search is better than others, so when MSFT & GOOG both try to integrate LLMs with real time information, GOOG still has the upper hand.

They have the upper hand in many many ways, hardware, ability to scale, access to high quality information, that's just to name a few.

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