Waymo cars can drive. Everything from the (limited) public literature to riding them personally has me totally persuaded that they can drive.

DeepMind RL/MCTS can succeed in fairly open-ended settings like StarCraft and shit.

Brain/DeepMind still knocks hard. They under-invested in LLMs and remain kind of half-hearted around it because they think it’s a dumbass sideshow because it is a dumbass sideshow.

They train on TPU which costs less than chips made of Rhodium like a rapper’s sunglasses, they fixed the structural limits in TF2 and PyTorch via the Jax ecosystem.

If I ever get interested in making some money again Google is the only FAANG outfit I’d look at.