Gemini has always felt to me like a distant third or fourth in the race. But as the latest frontier models seem to be significantly slower, Flash 3.6 has become much more competitive based on speed alone.
There’s also something to be said for the fact that Fable is so smart it
Honest question, has DeepMind done anything important in the last 5 years?
AlphaGo was one of the first things that got me interested in AI back in 2015, so I’m not hating, but it seems to me like they’ve floundered in the LLM era.
Shocking news! Demis Hassabis is stepping down as CEO of Google DeepMind, and Jeff Dean is leaving Google to start his own company. Sir Demis will be the new chief scientist.